diff --git a/tests/test_config.py b/tests/test_config.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..13a9f76212679
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_config.py
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+from vllm.config import ModelConfig
+
+
+def test_get_sliding_window():
+    TEST_SLIDING_WINDOW = 4096
+    # Test that the sliding window is correctly computed.
+    # For Qwen1.5/Qwen2, get_sliding_window() should be None
+    # when use_sliding_window is False.
+    qwen2_model_config = ModelConfig(
+        "Qwen/Qwen1.5-7B",
+        "Qwen/Qwen1.5-7B",
+        tokenizer_mode="auto",
+        trust_remote_code=False,
+        download_dir=None,
+        load_format="dummy",
+        seed=0,
+        dtype="float16",
+        revision=None,
+    )
+
+    qwen2_model_config.hf_config.use_sliding_window = False
+    qwen2_model_config.hf_config.sliding_window = TEST_SLIDING_WINDOW
+    assert qwen2_model_config.get_sliding_window() is None
+
+    qwen2_model_config.hf_config.use_sliding_window = True
+    assert qwen2_model_config.get_sliding_window() == TEST_SLIDING_WINDOW
+
+    mistral_model_config = ModelConfig(
+        "mistralai/Mistral-7B-v0.1",
+        "mistralai/Mistral-7B-v0.1",
+        tokenizer_mode="auto",
+        trust_remote_code=False,
+        download_dir=None,
+        load_format="dummy",
+        seed=0,
+        dtype="float16",
+        revision=None,
+    )
+    mistral_model_config.hf_config.sliding_window = None
+    assert mistral_model_config.get_sliding_window() is None
+
+    mistral_model_config.hf_config.sliding_window = TEST_SLIDING_WINDOW
+    assert mistral_model_config.get_sliding_window() == TEST_SLIDING_WINDOW
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/vllm/config.py b/vllm/config.py
index 319c1569f5e98..de687395a0001 100644
--- a/vllm/config.py
+++ b/vllm/config.py
@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ def __init__(
             # download model from ModelScope hub,
             # lazy import so that modelscope is not required for normal use.
             from modelscope.hub.snapshot_download import snapshot_download  # pylint: disable=C
+
             if not os.path.exists(model):
                 model_path = snapshot_download(model_id=model,
                                                cache_dir=download_dir,
@@ -139,7 +140,7 @@ def _verify_load_format(self) -> None:
                 if (f not in rocm_not_supported_load_format)
             ]
             raise ValueError(
-                f"load format \'{load_format}\' is not supported in ROCm. "
+                f"load format '{load_format}' is not supported in ROCm. "
                 f"Supported load format are "
                 f"{rocm_supported_load_format}")
 
@@ -232,6 +233,15 @@ def verify_with_parallel_config(
                 f"({pipeline_parallel_size}).")
 
     def get_sliding_window(self) -> Optional[int]:
+        """Get the sliding window size, or None if disabled.
+        """
+
+        # Some models, like Qwen2 and Qwen1.5, use `use_sliding_window` in
+        # addition to sliding window size. We check if that field is present
+        # and if it's False, return None.
+        if (hasattr(self.hf_config, "use_sliding_window")
+                and not self.hf_config.use_sliding_window):
+            return None
         return getattr(self.hf_config, "sliding_window", None)
 
     def get_vocab_size(self) -> int:
@@ -624,7 +634,7 @@ def _get_and_verify_dtype(
             k for k, v in _STR_DTYPE_TO_TORCH_DTYPE.items()
             if (k not in _ROCM_NOT_SUPPORTED_DTYPE)
         ]
-        raise ValueError(f"dtype \'{dtype}\' is not supported in ROCm. "
+        raise ValueError(f"dtype '{dtype}' is not supported in ROCm. "
                          f"Supported dtypes are {rocm_supported_dtypes}")
 
     # Verify the dtype.