diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/zconf.lex.c_shipped b/scripts/kconfig/zconf.lex.c_shipped
index a0521aa..3eb4c0b 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/zconf.lex.c_shipped
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/zconf.lex.c_shipped
@@ -920,7 +920,7 @@ static int input (void );
 /* This used to be an fputs(), but since the string might contain NUL's,
  * we now use fwrite().
  */
-#define ECHO do { if (fwrite( zconftext, zconfleng, 1, zconfout )) {} } while (0)
+#define ECHO fwrite( zconftext, zconfleng, 1, zconfout )
 #endif
 
 /* Gets input and stuffs it into "buf".  number of characters read, or YY_NULL,