diff --git a/dist/tools/endingcheck/check.sh b/dist/tools/endingcheck/check.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index f6a97b06be..0000000000
--- a/dist/tools/endingcheck/check.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,51 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-#
-# Copyright (C) 2015 Kushal Singh <kushal.spiderman.singh@gmail.com>
-#
-# This file is subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU Lesser
-# General Public License v2.1. See the file LICENSE in the top level
-# directory for more details.
-#
-
-BRANCH=${1}
-ENDREGEX='^M$'
-
-# If no branch but an option is given, unset BRANCH.
-# Otherwise, consume this parameter.
-if echo "${BRANCH}" | grep -q '^-'; then
-    BRANCH=""
-else
-    if [ -n "${BRANCH}" ]; then
-        shift 1
-    fi
-fi
-
-# If the --diff-filter option is given, consume this parameter.
-# Set the default DIFFFILTER option otherwise.
-DIFFFILTER="${1}"
-if echo "${DIFFFILTER}" | grep -q '^--diff-filter='; then
-    shift 1
-else
-    DIFFFILTER="--diff-filter=ACMR"
-fi
-
-# select either all or only touched-in-branch files, filter through FILEREGEX
-if [ -z "${BRANCH}" ]; then
-    FILES="$(git ls-tree -r --full-tree --name-only HEAD)"
-else
-    FILES="$(git diff ${DIFFFILTER} --name-only ${BRANCH})"
-fi
-
-if [ -z "${FILES}" ]; then
-    exit
-fi
-
-grep -E -R -l ${ENDREGEX} ${FILES} > /dev/null
-
-if [ $? -eq 0 ]
-then
-    echo "ERROR: carriage return error found"
-    exit 1
-else
-    exit 0
-fi
diff --git a/dist/tools/travis-scripts/build_and_test.sh b/dist/tools/travis-scripts/build_and_test.sh
index 90e39f2797..20346b4d36 100755
--- a/dist/tools/travis-scripts/build_and_test.sh
+++ b/dist/tools/travis-scripts/build_and_test.sh
@@ -45,9 +45,6 @@ then
         ./dist/tools/externc/check.sh master
         RESULT=$(set_result $? $RESULT)
 
-        ./dist/tools/endingcheck/check.sh riot/master --diff-filter=MA
-        RESULT=$(set_result $? $RESULT)
-
         # TODO:
         #   Remove all but `master` parameters to cppcheck (and remove second
         #   invocation) once all warnings of cppcheck have been taken care of