diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/Makefile b/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
index 181973509a05cc806e5e5ffbd8056dcc8da49494..9278519dbcf3e706bf94c3c8a6541ce0e3915d1b 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
@@ -143,10 +143,10 @@ help:
 
 # ===========================================================================
 # object files used by all kconfig flavours
-common-objs	:= confdata.o expr.o symbol.o preprocess.o zconf.lex.o zconf.tab.o
+common-objs	:= confdata.o expr.o lexer.lex.o preprocess.o symbol.o zconf.tab.o
 
-$(obj)/zconf.lex.o: $(obj)/zconf.tab.h
-HOSTCFLAGS_zconf.lex.o	:= -I$(src)
+$(obj)/lexer.lex.o: $(obj)/zconf.tab.h
+HOSTCFLAGS_lexer.lex.o	:= -I$(src)
 HOSTCFLAGS_zconf.tab.o	:= -I$(src)
 
 # conf: Used for defconfig, oldconfig and related targets
diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/zconf.l b/scripts/kconfig/lexer.l
similarity index 100%
rename from scripts/kconfig/zconf.l
rename to scripts/kconfig/lexer.l
diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/lkc.h b/scripts/kconfig/lkc.h
index 531ff7c57d92dce95e933fee200e6fc0ed3f13b4..d871539e4b457f517627e7f3f47a86134959dc77 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/lkc.h
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/lkc.h
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ void *xrealloc(void *p, size_t size);
 char *xstrdup(const char *s);
 char *xstrndup(const char *s, size_t n);
 
-/* zconf.l */
+/* lexer.l */
 int yylex(void);
 
 struct gstr {