diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.rst
index 082c570..ae0f21e 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.rst
@@ -212,6 +212,9 @@ ABI Changes
 
 * eal: made the ``rte_logs`` struct and global symbol private.
 
+* eal: made the ``rte_config`` struct and ``rte_eal_get_configuration``
+  function private.
+
 * pci: removed the following deprecated functions since dpdk:
 
   - ``eal_parse_pci_BDF`` replaced by ``rte_pci_addr_parse``
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_mcfg.c b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_mcfg.c
index 0665494..0cf9a62 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_mcfg.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_mcfg.c
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 
 #include "eal_internal_cfg.h"
 #include "eal_memcfg.h"
+#include "eal_private.h"
 
 void
 eal_mcfg_complete(void)
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_private.h b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_private.h
index 0e4b033..52eea9a 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_private.h
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_private.h
@@ -37,6 +37,38 @@ struct lcore_config {
 extern struct lcore_config lcore_config[RTE_MAX_LCORE];
 
 /**
+ * The global RTE configuration structure.
+ */
+struct rte_config {
+	uint32_t master_lcore;       /**< Id of the master lcore */
+	uint32_t lcore_count;        /**< Number of available logical cores. */
+	uint32_t numa_node_count;    /**< Number of detected NUMA nodes. */
+	uint32_t numa_nodes[RTE_MAX_NUMA_NODES]; /**< List of detected NUMA nodes. */
+	uint32_t service_lcore_count;/**< Number of available service cores. */
+	enum rte_lcore_role_t lcore_role[RTE_MAX_LCORE]; /**< State of cores. */
+
+	/** Primary or secondary configuration */
+	enum rte_proc_type_t process_type;
+
+	/** PA or VA mapping mode */
+	enum rte_iova_mode iova_mode;
+
+	/**
+	 * Pointer to memory configuration, which may be shared across multiple
+	 * DPDK instances
+	 */
+	struct rte_mem_config *mem_config;
+} __attribute__((__packed__));
+
+/**
+ * Get the global configuration structure.
+ *
+ * @return
+ *   A pointer to the global configuration structure.
+ */
+struct rte_config *rte_eal_get_configuration(void);
+
+/**
  * Initialize the memzone subsystem (private to eal).
  *
  * @return
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_eal.h b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_eal.h
index ea3c9df..2f9ed29 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_eal.h
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_eal.h
@@ -52,38 +52,6 @@ enum rte_proc_type_t {
 };
 
 /**
- * The global RTE configuration structure.
- */
-struct rte_config {
-	uint32_t master_lcore;       /**< Id of the master lcore */
-	uint32_t lcore_count;        /**< Number of available logical cores. */
-	uint32_t numa_node_count;    /**< Number of detected NUMA nodes. */
-	uint32_t numa_nodes[RTE_MAX_NUMA_NODES]; /**< List of detected NUMA nodes. */
-	uint32_t service_lcore_count;/**< Number of available service cores. */
-	enum rte_lcore_role_t lcore_role[RTE_MAX_LCORE]; /**< State of cores. */
-
-	/** Primary or secondary configuration */
-	enum rte_proc_type_t process_type;
-
-	/** PA or VA mapping mode */
-	enum rte_iova_mode iova_mode;
-
-	/**
-	 * Pointer to memory configuration, which may be shared across multiple
-	 * DPDK instances
-	 */
-	struct rte_mem_config *mem_config;
-} __attribute__((__packed__));
-
-/**
- * Get the global configuration structure.
- *
- * @return
- *   A pointer to the global configuration structure.
- */
-struct rte_config *rte_eal_get_configuration(void);
-
-/**
  * Get the process type in a multi-process setup
  *
  * @return
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_heap.c b/lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_heap.c
index 634ca21..842eb9d 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_heap.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_heap.c
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 #include "eal_internal_cfg.h"
 #include "eal_memalloc.h"
 #include "eal_memcfg.h"
+#include "eal_private.h"
 #include "malloc_elem.h"
 #include "malloc_heap.h"
 #include "malloc_mp.h"
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/rte_malloc.c b/lib/librte_eal/common/rte_malloc.c
index fecd9a9..044d3a9 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/common/rte_malloc.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/rte_malloc.c
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 #include "malloc_heap.h"
 #include "eal_memalloc.h"
 #include "eal_memcfg.h"
+#include "eal_private.h"
 
 
 /* Free the memory space back to heap */
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/rte_eal_version.map b/lib/librte_eal/rte_eal_version.map
index e7422d4..009641f 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/rte_eal_version.map
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/rte_eal_version.map
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ DPDK_2.0 {
 	rte_dump_tailq;
 	rte_eal_alarm_cancel;
 	rte_eal_alarm_set;
-	rte_eal_get_configuration;
 	rte_eal_get_lcore_state;
 	rte_eal_get_physmem_size;
 	rte_eal_has_hugepages;
