diff --git a/scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py b/scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e9cc689
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py
@@ -0,0 +1,139 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+"""Find Kconfig identifiers that are referenced but not defined."""
+
+# (c) 2014 Valentin Rothberg <valentinrothberg@gmail.com>
+# (c) 2014 Stefan Hengelein <stefan.hengelein@fau.de>
+#
+# Licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL License version 2
+
+
+import os
+import re
+from subprocess import Popen, PIPE, STDOUT
+
+
+# regex expressions
+OPERATORS = r"&|\(|\)|\||\!"
+FEATURE = r"(?:\w*[A-Z0-9]\w*){2,}"
+DEF = r"^\s*(?:menu){,1}config\s+(" + FEATURE + r")\s*"
+EXPR = r"(?:" + OPERATORS + r"|\s|" + FEATURE + r")+"
+STMT = r"^\s*(?:if|select|depends\s+on)\s+" + EXPR
+SOURCE_FEATURE = r"(?:\W|\b)+[D]{,1}CONFIG_(" + FEATURE + r")"
+
+# regex objects
+REGEX_FILE_KCONFIG = re.compile(r".*Kconfig[\.\w+\-]*$")
+REGEX_FEATURE = re.compile(r"(" + FEATURE + r")")
+REGEX_SOURCE_FEATURE = re.compile(SOURCE_FEATURE)
+REGEX_KCONFIG_DEF = re.compile(DEF)
+REGEX_KCONFIG_EXPR = re.compile(EXPR)
+REGEX_KCONFIG_STMT = re.compile(STMT)
+REGEX_KCONFIG_HELP = re.compile(r"^\s+(help|---help---)\s*$")
+REGEX_FILTER_FEATURES = re.compile(r"[A-Za-z0-9]$")
+
+
+def main():
+    """Main function of this module."""
+    source_files = []
+    kconfig_files = []
+    defined_features = set()
+    referenced_features = dict()  # {feature: [files]}
+
+    # use 'git ls-files' to get the worklist
+    pop = Popen("git ls-files", stdout=PIPE, stderr=STDOUT, shell=True)
+    (stdout, _) = pop.communicate()  # wait until finished
+    if len(stdout) > 0 and stdout[-1] == "\n":
+        stdout = stdout[:-1]
+
+    for gitfile in stdout.rsplit("\n"):
+        if ".git" in gitfile or "ChangeLog" in gitfile or \
+                ".log" in gitfile or os.path.isdir(gitfile):
+            continue
+        if REGEX_FILE_KCONFIG.match(gitfile):
+            kconfig_files.append(gitfile)
+        else:
+            # all non-Kconfig files are checked for consistency
+            source_files.append(gitfile)
+
+    for sfile in source_files:
+        parse_source_file(sfile, referenced_features)
+
+    for kfile in kconfig_files:
+        parse_kconfig_file(kfile, defined_features, referenced_features)
+
+    print "Undefined symbol used\tFile list"
+    for feature in sorted(referenced_features):
+        # filter some false positives
+        if feature == "FOO" or feature == "BAR" or \
+                feature == "FOO_BAR" or feature == "XXX":
+            continue
+        if feature not in defined_features:
+            if feature.endswith("_MODULE"):
+                # avoid false positives for kernel modules
+                if feature[:-len("_MODULE")] in defined_features:
+                    continue
+            files = referenced_features.get(feature)
+            print "%s\t%s" % (feature, ", ".join(files))
+
+
+def parse_source_file(sfile, referenced_features):
+    """Parse @sfile for referenced Kconfig features."""
+    lines = []
+    with open(sfile, "r") as stream:
+        lines = stream.readlines()
+
+    for line in lines:
+        if not "CONFIG_" in line:
+            continue
+        features = REGEX_SOURCE_FEATURE.findall(line)
+        for feature in features:
+            if not REGEX_FILTER_FEATURES.search(feature):
+                continue
+            sfiles = referenced_features.get(feature, set())
+            sfiles.add(sfile)
+            referenced_features[feature] = sfiles
+
+
+def get_features_in_line(line):
+    """Return mentioned Kconfig features in @line."""
+    return REGEX_FEATURE.findall(line)
+
+
+def parse_kconfig_file(kfile, defined_features, referenced_features):
+    """Parse @kfile and update feature definitions and references."""
+    lines = []
+    skip = False
+
+    with open(kfile, "r") as stream:
+        lines = stream.readlines()
+
+    for i in range(len(lines)):
+        line = lines[i]
+        line = line.strip('\n')
+        line = line.split("#")[0]  # ignore comments
+
+        if REGEX_KCONFIG_DEF.match(line):
+            feature_def = REGEX_KCONFIG_DEF.findall(line)
+            defined_features.add(feature_def[0])
+            skip = False
+        elif REGEX_KCONFIG_HELP.match(line):
+            skip = True
+        elif skip:
+            # ignore content of help messages
+            pass
+        elif REGEX_KCONFIG_STMT.match(line):
+            features = get_features_in_line(line)
+            # multi-line statements
+            while line.endswith("\\"):
+                i += 1
+                line = lines[i]
+                line = line.strip('\n')
+                features.extend(get_features_in_line(line))
+            for feature in set(features):
+                paths = referenced_features.get(feature, set())
+                paths.add(kfile)
+                referenced_features[feature] = paths
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
diff --git a/scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.sh b/scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index ccb3391..0000000
--- a/scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,59 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-# Find Kconfig variables used in source code but never defined in Kconfig
-# Copyright (C) 2007, Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
-
-# Tested with dash.
-paths="$@"
-[ -z "$paths" ] && paths=.
-
-# Doing this once at the beginning saves a lot of time, on a cache-hot tree.
-Kconfigs="`find . -name 'Kconfig' -o -name 'Kconfig*[^~]'`"
-
-printf "File list \tundefined symbol used\n"
-find $paths -name '*.[chS]' -o -name 'Makefile' -o -name 'Makefile*[^~]'| while read i
-do
-	# Output the bare Kconfig variable and the filename; the _MODULE part at
-	# the end is not removed here (would need perl an not-hungry regexp for that).
-	sed -ne 's!^.*\<\(UML_\)\?CONFIG_\([0-9A-Za-z_]\+\).*!\2 '$i'!p' < $i
-done | \
-# Smart "sort|uniq" implemented in awk and tuned to collect the names of all
-# files which use a given symbol
-awk '{map[$1, count[$1]++] = $2; }
-END {
-	for (combIdx in map) {
-		split(combIdx, separate, SUBSEP);
-		# The value may have been removed.
-		if (! ( (separate[1], separate[2]) in map ) )
-			continue;
-		symb=separate[1];
-		printf "%s ", symb;
-		#Use gawk extension to delete the names vector
-		delete names;
-		#Portably delete the names vector
-		#split("", names);
-		for (i=0; i < count[symb]; i++) {
-			names[map[symb, i]] = 1;
-			# Unfortunately, we may still encounter symb, i in the
-			# outside iteration.
-			delete map[symb, i];
-		}
-		i=0;
-		for (name in names) {
-			if (i > 0)
-				printf ", %s", name;
-			else
-				printf "%s", name;
-			i++;
-		}
-		printf "\n";
-	}
-}' |
-while read symb files; do
-	# Remove the _MODULE suffix when checking the variable name. This should
-	# be done only on tristate symbols, actually, but Kconfig parsing is
-	# beyond the purpose of this script.
-	symb_bare=`echo $symb | sed -e 's/_MODULE//'`
-	if ! grep -q "\<$symb_bare\>" $Kconfigs; then
-		printf "$files: \t$symb\n"
-	fi
-done|sort
