diff --git a/scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py b/scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py
index 00a10a2..1548f9c 100755
--- a/scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py
+++ b/scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 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("(\"(.*?)\")")