diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 4e42f8e46c..4418c83cf7 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+Tue Jan 26 20:21:28 2010  Masatoshi SEKI  <m_seki@mva.biglobe.ne.jp>
+
+	* lib/drb/eq.rb: fix circular requrie in drb.
+          reported by akr. see [ruby-dev:40156] [ruby-core:27661]
+
+
 Tue Jan 26 19:59:17 2010  NARUSE, Yui  <naruse@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* ext/zlib/zlib.c (rb_gzfile_s_wrap): add rdoc.
diff --git a/lib/drb/eq.rb b/lib/drb/eq.rb
index e24512d6a7..6328c81202 100644
--- a/lib/drb/eq.rb
+++ b/lib/drb/eq.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-require 'drb/drb'
-
 module DRb
   class DRbObject
     def ==(other)