diff --git a/scripts/package/Makefile b/scripts/package/Makefile
index c162409fb4e4..8c6b7b09606a 100644
--- a/scripts/package/Makefile
+++ b/scripts/package/Makefile
@@ -1,10 +1,6 @@
 # Makefile for the different targets used to generate full packages of a kernel
 # It uses the generic clean infrastructure of kbuild
 
-# Ignore the following files/directories during tar operation
-TAR_IGNORE := --exclude SCCS --exclude BitKeeper --exclude .svn --exclude CVS
-
-
 # RPM target
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # The rpm target generates two rpm files: