Add explanations for kernel options in Section 8.3. Simplified the options due

to removal of systemd. 

Add a sed to ksyslogd to prevent errors in some circumstances. 
Update to man-pages-3.66. 
Update to linux-3.14.3. 



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diff --git a/chapter08/kernel.xml b/chapter08/kernel.xml
index 7d9747aec..930e5a007 100644
--- a/chapter08/kernel.xml
+++ b/chapter08/kernel.xml
@@ -72,25 +72,55 @@
 
     <para>Be sure to enable or disable following features:</para>
 
-        <screen role="nodump">General setup  ---&gt;
-  [*] open by fhandle syscalls
-  [*] Control Group support
-Processor type and features  ---&gt;
-  [*] Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode
-Networking support  ---&gt;
-  Networking options  ---&gt;
-    &lt;*&gt; The IPv6 protocol
+        <screen role="nodump">
 Device Drivers  ---&gt;
   Generic Driver Options  ---&gt;
     ()  path to uevent helper
     [*] Maintain a devtmpfs filesystem to mount at /dev
-    [ ] Fallback user-helper invocation for firmware loading
 File systems  ---&gt;
   [*] Inotify support for userspace
-  &lt;*&gt; Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3)
-  Pseudo filesystems  ---&gt;
-    [*] Tmpfs POSIX Access Control Lists
-    [*] Tmpfs extended attributes</screen></note>
+  &lt;*&gt; Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3)</screen></note>
+
+    <variablelist>
+      <title>The rationale for the above configuration items:</title>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><parameter>path to uevent helper</parameter></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Having an entry in this space will interfere with device
+          management when using udev/eudev. </para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><parameter>Maintain a devtmpfs</parameter></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>This will create automated device nodes which are populated by the
+          kernel, even without udev running.  Udev then runs on top of this,
+          managing permissions and adding symlinks.  This configuration
+          itme is required for all users of udev/eudev. </para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><parameter>Inotify support</parameter></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>This allows monitoring of both files and directories via a single
+          open file descriptor.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><parameter>Kernel automounter version 4 support</parameter></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>This allows Desktop
+          Environments to automatically mount usb sticks and similar, this is
+          needed to work around a bug with network filesystems which are to be
+          mounted on boot.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+    </variablelist>
 
 <screen role="nodump"><userinput>make LANG=<replaceable>&lt;host_LANG_value&gt;</replaceable> LC_ALL= menuconfig</userinput></screen>