diff --git a/scripts/remove-stale-files b/scripts/remove-stale-files
index 385610fe39361e3077f5d30548d40bcbbf90c333..f38d26b78c2a4ac2a20b1f5be3776262146cd013 100755
--- a/scripts/remove-stale-files
+++ b/scripts/remove-stale-files
@@ -20,22 +20,4 @@ set -e
 # yard. Stale files stay in this file for a while (for some release cycles?),
 # then will be really dead and removed from the code base entirely.
 
-rm -f arch/powerpc/purgatory/kexec-purgatory.c
-rm -f arch/riscv/purgatory/kexec-purgatory.c
-rm -f arch/x86/purgatory/kexec-purgatory.c
-
-rm -f scripts/extract-cert
-
-rm -f scripts/kconfig/[gmnq]conf-cfg
-
-rm -f rust/target.json
-
-rm -f scripts/bin2c
-
-rm -f .scmversion
-
-rm -rf include/ksym
-
-find . -name '*.usyms' | xargs rm -f
-
 rm -f *.spec