diff --git a/scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py b/scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py
index 00a10a293f4fc0c681533772af4b7dbe0c44b7d2..1548f9ce46827a932efc51cd840676d7b4d4a0c5 100755
--- a/scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py
+++ b/scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ REGEX_SOURCE_SYMBOL = re.compile(SOURCE_SYMBOL)
 REGEX_KCONFIG_DEF = re.compile(DEF)
 REGEX_KCONFIG_EXPR = re.compile(EXPR)
 REGEX_KCONFIG_STMT = re.compile(STMT)
-REGEX_KCONFIG_HELP = re.compile(r"^\s+(help|---help---)\s*$")
+REGEX_KCONFIG_HELP = re.compile(r"^\s+help\s*$")
 REGEX_FILTER_SYMBOLS = re.compile(r"[A-Za-z0-9]$")
 REGEX_NUMERIC = re.compile(r"0[xX][0-9a-fA-F]+|[0-9]+")
 REGEX_QUOTES = re.compile("(\"(.*?)\")")
diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/lexer.l b/scripts/kconfig/lexer.l
index 6354c905b006f66e673d9b098c2ae50ef29271c4..4b7339ff4c8b58881e8ce8d35f1292958553681b 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/lexer.l
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/lexer.l
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ n	[A-Za-z0-9_-]
 "endchoice"		return T_ENDCHOICE;
 "endif"			return T_ENDIF;
 "endmenu"		return T_ENDMENU;
-"help"|"---help---"	return T_HELP;
+"help"			return T_HELP;
 "hex"			return T_HEX;
 "if"			return T_IF;
 "imply"			return T_IMPLY;