diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 9780d05..8ba223d 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 # Copyright 1999-2008 Gentoo Foundation; 2008 Chris Gianelloni
 # Distributed under the GPL v2
 
+  29 Jul 2008; Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@gentoo.org> genkernel:
+  Remove check for >=2.6 for 'make prepare'
+
   29 Jul 2008; Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@gentoo.org> gen_bootloader.sh,
   gen_configkernel.sh, gen_moddeps.sh, genkernel.8:
   Remove a few more 2.4 kernel support remnants
diff --git a/genkernel b/genkernel
index 9be5df4..e05be9e 100755
--- a/genkernel
+++ b/genkernel
@@ -221,10 +221,10 @@ then
 	# Configure kernel
 	config_kernel
 	
-	# Make prepare [2.6]
+	# Make prepare
 	if [ "${ARCH_HAVENOPREPARE}" = '' ]
 	then
-		[ "${VER}" -gt '2' ] || [ "${VER}" -eq '2' -a "${PAT}" -ge '6' ] && compile_generic prepare kernel
+		compile_generic prepare kernel
 	fi
 	
 	# KV may have changed due to the configuration