diff --git a/include/qapi/qmp/qerror.h b/include/qapi/qmp/qerror.h
index 63ab775dc5..b723830eff 100644
--- a/include/qapi/qmp/qerror.h
+++ b/include/qapi/qmp/qerror.h
@@ -17,9 +17,6 @@
  * add new ones!
  */
 
-#define QERR_INVALID_PARAMETER_TYPE \
-    "Invalid parameter type for '%s', expected: %s"
-
 #define QERR_INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE \
     "Parameter '%s' expects %s"
 
diff --git a/qom/object.c b/qom/object.c
index 3d96818f7d..44ec8f6460 100644
--- a/qom/object.c
+++ b/qom/object.c
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@
 #include "qapi/qobject-input-visitor.h"
 #include "qapi/forward-visitor.h"
 #include "qapi/qapi-builtin-visit.h"
-#include "qapi/qmp/qerror.h"
 #include "qapi/qmp/qjson.h"
 #include "trace.h"
 
@@ -1912,7 +1911,8 @@ static Object *object_resolve_link(Object *obj, const char *name,
     } else if (!target) {
         target = object_resolve_path(path, &ambiguous);
         if (target || ambiguous) {
-            error_setg(errp, QERR_INVALID_PARAMETER_TYPE, name, target_type);
+            error_setg(errp, "Invalid parameter type for '%s', expected: %s",
+                             name, target_type);
         } else {
             error_set(errp, ERROR_CLASS_DEVICE_NOT_FOUND,
                       "Device '%s' not found", path);
diff --git a/scripts/qapi/visit.py b/scripts/qapi/visit.py
index c56ea4d724..a21b7b1468 100644
--- a/scripts/qapi/visit.py
+++ b/scripts/qapi/visit.py
@@ -278,8 +278,8 @@ bool visit_type_%(c_name)s(Visitor *v, const char *name,
         abort();
     default:
         assert(visit_is_input(v));
-        error_setg(errp, QERR_INVALID_PARAMETER_TYPE, name ? name : "null",
-                   "%(name)s");
+        error_setg(errp, "Invalid parameter type for '%%s', expected: %(name)s",
+                         name ? name : "null");
         /* Avoid passing invalid *obj to qapi_free_%(c_name)s() */
         g_free(*obj);
         *obj = NULL;
@@ -356,7 +356,6 @@ class QAPISchemaGenVisitVisitor(QAPISchemaModularCVisitor):
         self._genc.preamble_add(mcgen('''
 #include "qemu/osdep.h"
 #include "qapi/error.h"
-#include "qapi/qmp/qerror.h"
 #include "%(visit)s.h"
 ''',
                                       visit=visit))