diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 895410fbf9..48f23aa978 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -562,12 +562,6 @@ slirp/all: .git-submodule-status
 		CC="$(CC)" AR="$(AR)" 	LD="$(LD)" RANLIB="$(RANLIB)"	\
 		CFLAGS="$(QEMU_CFLAGS) $(CFLAGS)" LDFLAGS="$(QEMU_LDFLAGS)")
 
-# Compatibility gunk to keep make working across the rename of targets
-# for recursion, to be removed some time after 4.1.
-subdir-dtc: dtc/all
-subdir-capstone: capstone/all
-subdir-slirp: slirp/all
-
 $(filter %/all, $(TARGET_DIRS_RULES)): libqemuutil.a $(common-obj-y) \
 	$(qom-obj-y)