diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 4f2a301135..e64e71197b 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ Tue Apr 29 09:46:00 EST 2008 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
 
 Tue Apr 29 15:20:12 CEST 2008 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
 
+	also check for useless test-before-xmlFree
+	* Makefile.cfg (useless_free_options): Add --name=xmlFree.
+
 	Recognize more uses of strcmp.
 	* Makefile.maint (sc_prohibit_strcmp): Relax regexp.
 
diff --git a/Makefile.cfg b/Makefile.cfg
index e0d5528722..cbf97c2ff8 100644
--- a/Makefile.cfg
+++ b/Makefile.cfg
@@ -53,5 +53,6 @@ local-checks-to-skip =			\
 
 useless_free_options =		\
   --name=sexpr_free		\
+  --name=xmlFree		\
   --name=xmlXPathFreeContext	\
   --name=xmlXPathFreeObject