diff --git a/share/man/man4/pcm.4 b/share/man/man4/pcm.4
index b0f944a0d44..9ea0f14c393 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/pcm.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/pcm.4
@@ -407,15 +407,6 @@ When a channel is closed the channel volume will be reset to 0db.
 This means that any changes to the volume will be lost.
 Enabling this will preserve the volume, at the cost of possible confusion
 when applications tries to re-open the same device.
-.It Va hw.snd.vpc_mixer_bypass
-The recommended way to use the VPC feature is to teach applications to use the
-correct
-.Fn ioctl :
-.Dv SNDCTL_DSP_GETPLAYVOL , SNDCTL_DSP_SETPLAYVOL ,
-.Dv SNDCTL_DSP_SETRECVOL , SNDCTL_DSP_SETRECVOL .
-This is however not always possible.
-Enable this to allow applications to use their own existing mixer logic
-to control their own channel volume.
 .It Va hw.snd.vpc_reset
 Enable to restore all channel volumes back to the default value of 0db.
 .It Va dev.pcm.%d.bitperfect
diff --git a/sys/dev/sound/pcm/mixer.c b/sys/dev/sound/pcm/mixer.c
index be4447b1396..d73361fe7e1 100644
--- a/sys/dev/sound/pcm/mixer.c
+++ b/sys/dev/sound/pcm/mixer.c
@@ -37,11 +37,6 @@
 #include "feeder_if.h"
 #include "mixer_if.h"
 
-static int mixer_bypass = 1;
-SYSCTL_INT(_hw_snd, OID_AUTO, vpc_mixer_bypass, CTLFLAG_RWTUN,
-    &mixer_bypass, 0,
-    "control channel pcm/rec volume, bypassing real mixer device");
-
 #define MIXER_NAMELEN	16
 struct snd_mixer {
 	KOBJ_FIELDS;