diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 41e6bd55ca..6390df809c 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -242,6 +242,7 @@ Patches have also been contributed by:
   Eiichi Tsukata       <eiichi.tsukata.xh@hitachi.com>
   Wido den Hollander   <wido@widodh.nl>
   Gene Czarcinski      <gene@czarc.net>
+  Stefan Hajnoczi      <stefanha@redhat.com>
 
   [....send patches to get your name here....]
 
diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.c b/src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.c
index 4bb09d9b46..072736b31f 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.c
@@ -3518,9 +3518,6 @@ qemuMonitorJSONBlockIoThrottleInfo(virJSONValuePtr result,
             goto cleanup;
         }
 
-       if(STRPREFIX(current_dev, QEMU_DRIVE_HOST_PREFIX))
-            current_dev += strlen(QEMU_DRIVE_HOST_PREFIX);
-
         if (STREQ(current_dev, device))
             continue;
 
diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_monitor_text.c b/src/qemu/qemu_monitor_text.c
index ddc86ef647..3c61d3263c 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_monitor_text.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_monitor_text.c
@@ -3367,9 +3367,6 @@ qemuMonitorTextParseBlockIoThrottle(const char *result,
     p = result;
 
     while (*p) {
-        if (STRPREFIX(p, QEMU_DRIVE_HOST_PREFIX))
-            p += strlen(QEMU_DRIVE_HOST_PREFIX);
-
         if (STREQLEN(p, device, devnamelen) &&
             p[devnamelen] == ':' && p[devnamelen+1] == ' ') {