diff --git a/docs/system/deprecated.rst b/docs/system/deprecated.rst
index 5e3a31c123..62a64a8c41 100644
--- a/docs/system/deprecated.rst
+++ b/docs/system/deprecated.rst
@@ -21,15 +21,6 @@ deprecated.
 System emulator command line arguments
 --------------------------------------
 
-``-usbdevice`` (since 2.10.0)
-'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
-
-The ``-usbdevice DEV`` argument is now a synonym for setting
-the ``-device usb-DEV`` argument instead. The deprecated syntax
-would automatically enable USB support on the machine type.
-If using the new syntax, USB support must be explicitly
-enabled via the ``-machine usb=on`` argument.
-
 ``-drive file=json:{...{'driver':'file'}}`` (since 3.0)
 '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
 
diff --git a/docs/system/removed-features.rst b/docs/system/removed-features.rst
index 83148dcfda..82e7fcc517 100644
--- a/docs/system/removed-features.rst
+++ b/docs/system/removed-features.rst
@@ -38,6 +38,14 @@ or ``-display default,show-cursor=on`` instead.
 QEMU 5.0 introduced an alternative syntax to specify the size of the translation
 block cache, ``-accel tcg,tb-size=``.
 
+``-usbdevice audio`` (removed in 6.0)
+'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
+
+This option lacked the possibility to specify an audio backend device.
+Use ``-device usb-audio`` now instead (and specify a corresponding USB
+host controller or ``-usb`` if necessary).
+
+
 QEMU Machine Protocol (QMP) commands
 ------------------------------------
 
diff --git a/hw/usb/dev-audio.c b/hw/usb/dev-audio.c
index e1486f81e0..f5cb246792 100644
--- a/hw/usb/dev-audio.c
+++ b/hw/usb/dev-audio.c
@@ -1024,7 +1024,6 @@ static const TypeInfo usb_audio_info = {
 static void usb_audio_register_types(void)
 {
     type_register_static(&usb_audio_info);
-    usb_legacy_register(TYPE_USB_AUDIO, "audio", NULL);
 }
 
 type_init(usb_audio_register_types)
diff --git a/softmmu/vl.c b/softmmu/vl.c
index b7673b9613..a750dae6b1 100644
--- a/softmmu/vl.c
+++ b/softmmu/vl.c
@@ -3180,8 +3180,6 @@ void qemu_init(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
                 qemu_opts_parse_noisily(olist, "usb=on", false);
                 break;
             case QEMU_OPTION_usbdevice:
-                error_report("'-usbdevice' is deprecated, please use "
-                             "'-device usb-...' instead");
                 olist = qemu_find_opts("machine");
                 qemu_opts_parse_noisily(olist, "usb=on", false);
                 add_device_config(DEV_USB, optarg);