diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index ee92e64ea70..49d91f4d598 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ top_srcdir		?= $(CURDIR)
 
 include $(top_srcdir)/include/mk/env_pre.mk
 include $(top_srcdir)/include/mk/automake.mk
-include $(top_srcdir)/include/mk/gitignore.mk
 
 .SUFFIXES:
 .SUFFIXES: .am .default .h .in .m4 .mk
diff --git a/include/mk/gitignore.mk b/include/mk/gitignore.mk
deleted file mode 100644
index 475206dcd2d..00000000000
--- a/include/mk/gitignore.mk
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,51 +0,0 @@
-#
-#    gitignore generation include Makefile.
-#
-#    Copyright (C) 2011, Linux Test Project.
-#
-#    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-#    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-#    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
-#    (at your option) any later version.
-#
-#    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-#    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-#    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-#    GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-#    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
-#    with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
-#    51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
-#
-# Ngie Cooper, January 2011
-#
-
-CLEAN_TARGETS+=		gitignore_clean
-
-BEFORE:=		.gitignore-before
-
-AFTER:=			.gitignore-after
-
-IGNORE_DIR_EXPR:=	egrep -v "^$$(echo "$(AUTOCONFED_SUBDIRS)" | tr " " "|")"
-
-# NOTE: The underscore is used in place of a dash to avoid implicit rule
-# evaluation in top-level Makefile.
-.PHONY: gitignore_clean
-gitignore_clean:
-	$(RM) -f $(BEFORE) $(AFTER)
-
-$(BEFORE):
-	$(MAKE) distclean
-	$(MAKE) ac-maintainer-clean
-	find . | $(IGNORE_DIR_EXPR) > $@
-
-$(AFTER):
-	$(MAKE) autotools
-	./configure --prefix=/dev/null
-	$(MAKE) all
-	find . | $(IGNORE_DIR_EXPR) > $@
-	# Set everything in autoconf land back to a sane state.
-	$(MAKE) distclean
-
-.gitignore: | $(BEFORE) $(AFTER)
-	diff -u $(BEFORE) $(AFTER) | grep '^+' | sed -e 's,^\+,,g' > $@
diff --git a/testcases/realtime/Makefile b/testcases/realtime/Makefile
index a7491654c29..61663bfd9ff 100644
--- a/testcases/realtime/Makefile
+++ b/testcases/realtime/Makefile
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ include $(top_srcdir)/include/mk/env_pre.mk
 ifeq ($(filter autotools %clean .gitignore gitignore.%,$(MAKECMDGOALS)),)
 include $(abs_srcdir)/config.mk
 endif
-include $(top_srcdir)/include/mk/gitignore.mk
 
 LIBDIR			:= lib
 FILTER_OUT_DIRS		:= $(LIBDIR) m4