diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig/chapter.sgml
index 1eb843d5af..3e9e0943a2 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig/chapter.sgml
@@ -1195,7 +1195,7 @@ pseudo-device   bpf           # Berkeley packet filter</programlisting>
 
     <note><para>If you are running FreeBSD&nbsp;5.0 or later
       you can safely skip this section.  These versions use
-      &man.devfs.5; to maintain device nodes for you.</para></note>
+      &man.devfs.5; to allocate device nodes transparently for the user.</para></note>
 
     <para>Almost every device in the kernel has a corresponding
       <quote>node</quote> entry in the <filename>/dev</filename> directory.