diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 6d7a7a6857..8fb8768f51 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Thu Jan 22 18:35:49 2004  WATANABE Hirofumi  <eban@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* lib/e2mmap.rb (VERSION): remove unnecessary version checking.
+
 Thu Jan 22 16:21:02 2004  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* parse.y (string_content): reset lexical states at the beginning of
diff --git a/lib/e2mmap.rb b/lib/e2mmap.rb
index 3e2604af5d..00d4f83eb8 100644
--- a/lib/e2mmap.rb
+++ b/lib/e2mmap.rb
@@ -48,8 +48,6 @@
 #   Foo.Fail ExistingExceptionClass, arg...
 #
 #
-fail "Use Ruby 1.1" if VERSION < "1.1"
-
 module Exception2MessageMapper
   @RCS_ID='-$Id: e2mmap.rb,v 1.10 1999/02/17 12:33:17 keiju Exp keiju $-'