diff --git a/dist/tools/whitespacecheck/ignore_list.txt b/dist/tools/whitespacecheck/ignore_list.txt
index aa07e0b32a..c64537e0db 100644
--- a/dist/tools/whitespacecheck/ignore_list.txt
+++ b/dist/tools/whitespacecheck/ignore_list.txt
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 */vendor/*
+dist/tools/fixdep/fixdep.c