diff --git a/config.c b/config.c
index 0e24e54f..96d2e22e 100644
--- a/config.c
+++ b/config.c
@@ -59,6 +59,9 @@ parse_config(const char *config_file, t_configuration_options * options)
 	/*
 	 * Since some commands don't require a config file at all, not having one
 	 * isn't necessarily a problem.
+	 *
+	 * XXX this currently results in an ERROR being logged, which is silly
+	 * because it's not an error per-se
 	 */
 	if (fp == NULL)
 	{