diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/Kconfig b/drivers/usb/core/Kconfig
index 751031e8d8d2..fe46fc09defc 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/Kconfig
@@ -27,29 +27,6 @@ config USB_ANNOUNCE_NEW_DEVICES
 comment "Miscellaneous USB options"
 	depends on USB
 
-config USB_DEVICE_CLASS
-	bool "USB device class-devices (DEPRECATED)"
-	depends on USB
-	default y
-	---help---
-	  Userspace access to USB devices is granted by device-nodes exported
-	  directly from the usbdev in sysfs. Old versions of the driver
-	  core and udev needed additional class devices to export device nodes.
-
-	  These additional devices are difficult to handle in userspace, if
-	  information about USB interfaces must be available. One device
-	  contains the device node, the other device contains the interface
-	  data. Both devices are at the same level in sysfs (siblings) and one
-	  can't access the other. The device node created directly by the
-	  usb device is the parent device of the interface and therefore
-	  easily accessible from the interface event.
-
-	  This option provides backward compatibility for libusb device
-	  nodes (lsusb) when usbfs is not used, and the following udev rule
-	  doesn't exist:
-	    SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ACTION=="add", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", \
-	    NAME="bus/usb/$env{BUSNUM}/$env{DEVNUM}", MODE="0644"
-
 config USB_DYNAMIC_MINORS
 	bool "Dynamic USB minor allocation"
 	depends on USB
diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/devio.c b/drivers/usb/core/devio.c
index 90db6e2a573f..c4a1af8a954b 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/devio.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/devio.c
@@ -2051,44 +2051,13 @@ static void usbdev_remove(struct usb_device *udev)
 	}
 }
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_USB_DEVICE_CLASS
-static struct class *usb_classdev_class;
-
-static int usb_classdev_add(struct usb_device *dev)
-{
-	struct device *cldev;
-
-	cldev = device_create(usb_classdev_class, &dev->dev, dev->dev.devt,
-			      NULL, "usbdev%d.%d", dev->bus->busnum,
-			      dev->devnum);
-	if (IS_ERR(cldev))
-		return PTR_ERR(cldev);
-	dev->usb_classdev = cldev;
-	return 0;
-}
-
-static void usb_classdev_remove(struct usb_device *dev)
-{
-	if (dev->usb_classdev)
-		device_unregister(dev->usb_classdev);
-}
-
-#else
-#define usb_classdev_add(dev)		0
-#define usb_classdev_remove(dev)	do {} while (0)
-
-#endif
-
 static int usbdev_notify(struct notifier_block *self,
 			       unsigned long action, void *dev)
 {
 	switch (action) {
 	case USB_DEVICE_ADD:
-		if (usb_classdev_add(dev))
-			return NOTIFY_BAD;
 		break;
 	case USB_DEVICE_REMOVE:
-		usb_classdev_remove(dev);
 		usbdev_remove(dev);
 		break;
 	}
@@ -2118,21 +2087,6 @@ int __init usb_devio_init(void)
 		       USB_DEVICE_MAJOR);
 		goto error_cdev;
 	}
-#ifdef CONFIG_USB_DEVICE_CLASS
-	usb_classdev_class = class_create(THIS_MODULE, "usb_device");
-	if (IS_ERR(usb_classdev_class)) {
-		printk(KERN_ERR "Unable to register usb_device class\n");
-		retval = PTR_ERR(usb_classdev_class);
-		cdev_del(&usb_device_cdev);
-		usb_classdev_class = NULL;
-		goto out;
-	}
-	/* devices of this class shadow the major:minor of their parent
-	 * device, so clear ->dev_kobj to prevent adding duplicate entries
-	 * to /sys/dev
-	 */
-	usb_classdev_class->dev_kobj = NULL;
-#endif
 	usb_register_notify(&usbdev_nb);
 out:
 	return retval;
@@ -2145,9 +2099,6 @@ int __init usb_devio_init(void)
 void usb_devio_cleanup(void)
 {
 	usb_unregister_notify(&usbdev_nb);
-#ifdef CONFIG_USB_DEVICE_CLASS
-	class_destroy(usb_classdev_class);
-#endif
 	cdev_del(&usb_device_cdev);
 	unregister_chrdev_region(USB_DEVICE_DEV, USB_DEVICE_MAX);
 }
diff --git a/include/linux/usb.h b/include/linux/usb.h
index a63c5baa9f65..8fa9a93a4ec4 100644
--- a/include/linux/usb.h
+++ b/include/linux/usb.h
@@ -489,9 +489,6 @@ struct usb_device {
 	char *serial;
 
 	struct list_head filelist;
-#ifdef CONFIG_USB_DEVICE_CLASS
-	struct device *usb_classdev;
-#endif
 
 	int maxchild;
 	struct usb_device **children;