diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 0b9d0ae9775..bfcfdad3e09 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 2011-02-03  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
 
+	* msb.el: No need to load dired while compiling.
+
 	* emacs-lisp/elint.el (elint-standard-variables):
 	Remove a couple of built-ins that now have doc-strings.
 
diff --git a/lisp/msb.el b/lisp/msb.el
index 1f84ef78164..cbc953da98e 100644
--- a/lisp/msb.el
+++ b/lisp/msb.el
@@ -399,8 +399,6 @@ Optional second argument MAXBUF is completely ignored."
     (format "%s%s %s" modified read-only name)))
 
 
-(eval-when-compile (require 'dired))
-
 ;; `dired' can be called with a list of the form (directory file1 file2 ...)
 ;; which causes `dired-directory' to be in the same form.
 (defun msb--dired-directory ()