diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 8ba223d..a580dff 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> defaults/initrd.scripts:
+  Remove check for >=2.6 for mounting sysfs
+
   29 Jul 2008; Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@gentoo.org> genkernel:
   Remove check for >=2.6 for 'make prepare'
 
diff --git a/defaults/initrd.scripts b/defaults/initrd.scripts
index f3646c8..f58e1a4 100644
--- a/defaults/initrd.scripts
+++ b/defaults/initrd.scripts
@@ -202,12 +202,9 @@ cache_cd_contents() {
 }
 
 mount_sysfs() {
-	if [ "${KV_2_6_OR_GREATER}" ]
-	then
-		mount -t sysfs /sys /sys >/dev/null 2>&1
-		ret=$?
-		[ "$ret" -eq '0' ] || bad_msg "Failed to mount /sys!"
-	fi
+	mount -t sysfs /sys /sys >/dev/null 2>&1
+	ret=$?
+	[ "$ret" -eq '0' ] || bad_msg "Failed to mount /sys!"
 }
 
 findnfsmount() {