diff --git a/configure b/configure
index c60eef945..0f0e4d2bc 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -385,9 +385,6 @@ rm -f mk/config.mk.bak
 [ -n "$LDFLAGS" ] && echo "LDFLAGS?=$LDFLAGS" >> mk/config.mk
 [ -n "$DESTDIR" ] && echo "DESTDIR?=$DESTDIR" >> mk/config.mk
 
-# When nvme-cli repo will be update this link can be removed
-ln -fs mk/config.mk CONFIG.local
-
 echo "done."
 
 if [[ "$OSTYPE" == "freebsd"* ]]; then
diff --git a/scripts/genconfig.py b/scripts/genconfig.py
index 131a3b30f..550f0e9bc 100755
--- a/scripts/genconfig.py
+++ b/scripts/genconfig.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ for arg in sys.argv:
 
 defs = {}
 try:
-    with open("CONFIG.local") as f:
+    with open("mk/config.mk") as f:
         for line in f:
             line = line.strip()
             if not comment.match(line):
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ try:
                         strval = val.replace('"', '\"')
                         defs["SPDK_{0}".format(var)] = strval
 except IOError:
-    print("CONFIG.local not found")
+    print("mk/config.mk not found")
 
 for key, value in sorted(defs.items()):
     if value == 0: