diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 1d63189..d4b25fb 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ commands =
     bash -c "find sahara -type f -regex '.*\.pot?' -print0|xargs -0 -n 1 msgfmt --check-format -o /dev/null"
     # Run bashate checks
     bash -c "find sahara -iname '*.sh' -print0 | xargs -0 bashate -v"
-    bash -c "find devstack -type f -print0 | xargs -0 bashate -v"
+    bash -c "find devstack -not -name README.rst -type f -print0 | xargs -0 bashate -v"
 
 [testenv:doc8]
 deps =