diff --git a/blockdev-nbd.c b/blockdev-nbd.c
index 8c20baa..de2f2ff 100644
--- a/blockdev-nbd.c
+++ b/blockdev-nbd.c
@@ -144,6 +144,7 @@
 }
 
 void qmp_nbd_server_add(const char *device, bool has_name, const char *name,
+                        bool has_description, const char *description,
                         bool has_writable, bool writable,
                         bool has_bitmap, const char *bitmap, Error **errp)
 {
@@ -167,6 +168,11 @@
         return;
     }
 
+    if (has_description && strlen(description) > NBD_MAX_STRING_SIZE) {
+        error_setg(errp, "description '%s' too long", description);
+        return;
+    }
+
     if (nbd_export_find(name)) {
         error_setg(errp, "NBD server already has export named '%s'", name);
         return;
@@ -195,7 +201,8 @@
         writable = false;
     }
 
-    exp = nbd_export_new(bs, 0, len, name, NULL, bitmap, !writable, !writable,
+    exp = nbd_export_new(bs, 0, len, name, description, bitmap,
+                         !writable, !writable,
                          NULL, false, on_eject_blk, errp);
     if (!exp) {
         goto out;
diff --git a/docs/interop/qemu-nbd.rst b/docs/interop/qemu-nbd.rst
index df7b6b9..e548403 100644
--- a/docs/interop/qemu-nbd.rst
+++ b/docs/interop/qemu-nbd.rst
@@ -72,13 +72,6 @@
 
   Export the disk as read-only.
 
-.. option:: -P, --partition=NUM
-
-  Deprecated: Only expose MBR partition *NUM*.  Understands physical
-  partitions 1-4 and logical partition 5. New code should instead use
-  :option:`--image-opts` with the raw driver wrapping a subset of the
-  original image.
-
 .. option:: -B, --bitmap=NAME
 
   If *filename* has a qcow2 persistent bitmap *NAME*, expose
@@ -224,14 +217,14 @@
     -t -x subset -p 10810 \
     --image-opts driver=raw,offset=1M,size=1M,file.driver=file,file.filename=file.raw
 
-Serve a read-only copy of just the first MBR partition of a guest
-image over a Unix socket with as many as 5 simultaneous readers, with
-a persistent process forked as a daemon:
+Serve a read-only copy of a guest image over a Unix socket with as
+many as 5 simultaneous readers, with a persistent process forked as a
+daemon:
 
 ::
 
   qemu-nbd --fork --persistent --shared=5 --socket=/path/to/sock \
-    --partition=1 --read-only --format=qcow2 file.qcow2
+    --read-only --format=qcow2 file.qcow2
 
 Expose the guest-visible contents of a qcow2 file via a block device
 /dev/nbd0 (and possibly creating /dev/nbd0p1 and friends for
diff --git a/monitor/hmp-cmds.c b/monitor/hmp-cmds.c
index d0e0af8..558fe06 100644
--- a/monitor/hmp-cmds.c
+++ b/monitor/hmp-cmds.c
@@ -2351,7 +2351,7 @@
             continue;
         }
 
-        qmp_nbd_server_add(info->value->device, false, NULL,
+        qmp_nbd_server_add(info->value->device, false, NULL, false, NULL,
                            true, writable, false, NULL, &local_err);
 
         if (local_err != NULL) {
@@ -2373,7 +2373,7 @@
     bool writable = qdict_get_try_bool(qdict, "writable", false);
     Error *local_err = NULL;
 
-    qmp_nbd_server_add(device, !!name, name, true, writable,
+    qmp_nbd_server_add(device, !!name, name, false, NULL, true, writable,
                        false, NULL, &local_err);
     hmp_handle_error(mon, local_err);
 }
diff --git a/qapi/block.json b/qapi/block.json
index 145c268..7898104 100644
--- a/qapi/block.json
+++ b/qapi/block.json
@@ -250,9 +250,12 @@
 # @name: Export name. If unspecified, the @device parameter is used as the
 #        export name. (Since 2.12)
 #
+# @description: Free-form description of the export, up to 4096 bytes.
+#               (Since 5.0)
+#
 # @writable: Whether clients should be able to write to the device via the
 #     NBD connection (default false).
-
+#
 # @bitmap: Also export the dirty bitmap reachable from @device, so the
 #          NBD client can use NBD_OPT_SET_META_CONTEXT with
 #          "qemu:dirty-bitmap:NAME" to inspect the bitmap. (since 4.0)
@@ -263,8 +266,8 @@
 # Since: 1.3.0
 ##
 { 'command': 'nbd-server-add',
-  'data': {'device': 'str', '*name': 'str', '*writable': 'bool',
-           '*bitmap': 'str' } }
+  'data': {'device': 'str', '*name': 'str', '*description': 'str',
+           '*writable': 'bool', '*bitmap': 'str' } }
 
 ##
 # @NbdServerRemoveMode:
diff --git a/qemu-deprecated.texi b/qemu-deprecated.texi
index ea3e10b..2634e00 100644
--- a/qemu-deprecated.texi
+++ b/qemu-deprecated.texi
@@ -313,37 +313,6 @@
 
 @section Related binaries
 
-@subsection qemu-nbd --partition (since 4.0.0)
-
-The ``qemu-nbd --partition $digit'' code (also spelled @option{-P})
-can only handle MBR partitions, and has never correctly handled
-logical partitions beyond partition 5.  If you know the offset and
-length of the partition (perhaps by using @code{sfdisk} within the
-guest), you can achieve the effect of exporting just that subset of
-the disk by use of the @option{--image-opts} option with a raw
-blockdev using the @code{offset} and @code{size} parameters layered on
-top of any other existing blockdev. For example, if partition 1 is
-100MiB long starting at 1MiB, the old command:
-
-@code{qemu-nbd -t -P 1 -f qcow2 file.qcow2}
-
-can be rewritten as:
-
-@code{qemu-nbd -t --image-opts driver=raw,offset=1M,size=100M,file.driver=qcow2,file.backing.driver=file,file.backing.filename=file.qcow2}
-
-Alternatively, the @code{nbdkit} project provides a more powerful
-partition filter on top of its nbd plugin, which can be used to select
-an arbitrary MBR or GPT partition on top of any other full-image NBD
-export.  Using this to rewrite the above example results in:
-
-@code{qemu-nbd -t -k /tmp/sock -f qcow2 file.qcow2 &}
-@code{nbdkit -f --filter=partition nbd socket=/tmp/sock partition=1}
-
-Note that if you are exposing the export via /dev/nbd0, it is easier
-to just export the entire image and then mount only /dev/nbd0p1 than
-it is to reinvoke @command{qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd0} limited to just a
-subset of the image.
-
 @subsection qemu-img convert -n -o (since 4.2.0)
 
 All options specified in @option{-o} are image creation options, so
@@ -400,3 +369,21 @@
 
 The "autoload" parameter has been ignored since 2.12.0. All bitmaps
 are automatically loaded from qcow2 images.
+
+@section Related binaries
+
+@subsection qemu-nbd --partition (removed in 5.0.0)
+
+The ``qemu-nbd --partition $digit'' code (also spelled @option{-P})
+could only handle MBR partitions, and never correctly handled logical
+partitions beyond partition 5.  Exporting a partition can still be
+done by utilizing the @option{--image-opts} option with a raw blockdev
+using the @code{offset} and @code{size} parameters layered on top of
+any other existing blockdev. For example, if partition 1 is 100MiB
+long starting at 1MiB, the old command:
+
+@code{qemu-nbd -t -P 1 -f qcow2 file.qcow2}
+
+can be rewritten as:
+
+@code{qemu-nbd -t --image-opts driver=raw,offset=1M,size=100M,file.driver=qcow2,file.file.driver=file,file.file.filename=file.qcow2}
diff --git a/qemu-nbd.c b/qemu-nbd.c
index db29a0d..4aa0050 100644
--- a/qemu-nbd.c
+++ b/qemu-nbd.c
@@ -100,7 +100,6 @@
 "\n"
 "Exposing part of the image:\n"
 "  -o, --offset=OFFSET       offset into the image\n"
-"  -P, --partition=NUM       only expose partition NUM\n"
 "  -B, --bitmap=NAME         expose a persistent dirty bitmap\n"
 "\n"
 "General purpose options:\n"
@@ -156,96 +155,6 @@
     , name);
 }
 
-struct partition_record
-{
-    uint8_t bootable;
-    uint8_t start_head;
-    uint32_t start_cylinder;
-    uint8_t start_sector;
-    uint8_t system;
-    uint8_t end_head;
-    uint8_t end_cylinder;
-    uint8_t end_sector;
-    uint32_t start_sector_abs;
-    uint32_t nb_sectors_abs;
-};
-
-static void read_partition(uint8_t *p, struct partition_record *r)
-{
-    r->bootable = p[0];
-    r->start_head = p[1];
-    r->start_cylinder = p[3] | ((p[2] << 2) & 0x0300);
-    r->start_sector = p[2] & 0x3f;
-    r->system = p[4];
-    r->end_head = p[5];
-    r->end_cylinder = p[7] | ((p[6] << 2) & 0x300);
-    r->end_sector = p[6] & 0x3f;
-
-    r->start_sector_abs = ldl_le_p(p + 8);
-    r->nb_sectors_abs   = ldl_le_p(p + 12);
-}
-
-static int find_partition(BlockBackend *blk, int partition,
-                          uint64_t *offset, uint64_t *size)
-{
-    struct partition_record mbr[4];
-    uint8_t data[MBR_SIZE];
-    int i;
-    int ext_partnum = 4;
-    int ret;
-
-    ret = blk_pread(blk, 0, data, sizeof(data));
-    if (ret < 0) {
-        error_report("error while reading: %s", strerror(-ret));
-        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
-    }
-
-    if (data[510] != 0x55 || data[511] != 0xaa) {
-        return -EINVAL;
-    }
-
-    for (i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
-        read_partition(&data[446 + 16 * i], &mbr[i]);
-
-        if (!mbr[i].system || !mbr[i].nb_sectors_abs) {
-            continue;
-        }
-
-        if (mbr[i].system == 0xF || mbr[i].system == 0x5) {
-            struct partition_record ext[4];
-            uint8_t data1[MBR_SIZE];
-            int j;
-
-            ret = blk_pread(blk, mbr[i].start_sector_abs * MBR_SIZE,
-                            data1, sizeof(data1));
-            if (ret < 0) {
-                error_report("error while reading: %s", strerror(-ret));
-                exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
-            }
-
-            for (j = 0; j < 4; j++) {
-                read_partition(&data1[446 + 16 * j], &ext[j]);
-                if (!ext[j].system || !ext[j].nb_sectors_abs) {
-                    continue;
-                }
-
-                if ((ext_partnum + j + 1) == partition) {
-                    *offset = (uint64_t)ext[j].start_sector_abs << 9;
-                    *size = (uint64_t)ext[j].nb_sectors_abs << 9;
-                    return 0;
-                }
-            }
-            ext_partnum += 4;
-        } else if ((i + 1) == partition) {
-            *offset = (uint64_t)mbr[i].start_sector_abs << 9;
-            *size = (uint64_t)mbr[i].nb_sectors_abs << 9;
-            return 0;
-        }
-    }
-
-    return -ENOENT;
-}
-
 static void termsig_handler(int signum)
 {
     atomic_cmpxchg(&state, RUNNING, TERMINATE);
@@ -617,7 +526,7 @@
     int64_t fd_size;
     QemuOpts *sn_opts = NULL;
     const char *sn_id_or_name = NULL;
-    const char *sopt = "hVb:o:p:rsnP:c:dvk:e:f:tl:x:T:D:B:L";
+    const char *sopt = "hVb:o:p:rsnc:dvk:e:f:tl:x:T:D:B:L";
     struct option lopt[] = {
         { "help", no_argument, NULL, 'h' },
         { "version", no_argument, NULL, 'V' },
@@ -626,7 +535,6 @@
         { "socket", required_argument, NULL, 'k' },
         { "offset", required_argument, NULL, 'o' },
         { "read-only", no_argument, NULL, 'r' },
-        { "partition", required_argument, NULL, 'P' },
         { "bitmap", required_argument, NULL, 'B' },
         { "connect", required_argument, NULL, 'c' },
         { "disconnect", no_argument, NULL, 'd' },
@@ -657,7 +565,6 @@
     int ch;
     int opt_ind = 0;
     int flags = BDRV_O_RDWR;
-    int partition = 0;
     int ret = 0;
     bool seen_cache = false;
     bool seen_discard = false;
@@ -789,15 +696,6 @@
             readonly = true;
             flags &= ~BDRV_O_RDWR;
             break;
-        case 'P':
-            warn_report("The '-P' option is deprecated; use --image-opts with "
-                        "a raw device wrapper for subset exports instead");
-            if (qemu_strtoi(optarg, NULL, 0, &partition) < 0 ||
-                partition < 1 || partition > 8) {
-                error_report("Invalid partition '%s'", optarg);
-                exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
-            }
-            break;
         case 'B':
             bitmap = optarg;
             break;
@@ -894,7 +792,7 @@
             error_report("List mode is incompatible with a file name");
             exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
         }
-        if (export_name || export_description || dev_offset || partition ||
+        if (export_name || export_description || dev_offset ||
             device || disconnect || fmt || sn_id_or_name || bitmap ||
             seen_aio || seen_discard || seen_cache) {
             error_report("List mode is incompatible with per-device settings");
@@ -1158,33 +1056,6 @@
     }
     fd_size -= dev_offset;
 
-    if (partition) {
-        uint64_t limit;
-
-        if (dev_offset) {
-            error_report("Cannot request partition and offset together");
-            exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
-        }
-        ret = find_partition(blk, partition, &dev_offset, &limit);
-        if (ret < 0) {
-            error_report("Could not find partition %d: %s", partition,
-                         strerror(-ret));
-            exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
-        }
-        /*
-         * MBR partition limits are (32-bit << 9); this assert lets
-         * the compiler know that we can't overflow 64 bits.
-         */
-        assert(dev_offset + limit >= dev_offset);
-        if (dev_offset + limit > fd_size) {
-            error_report("Discovered partition %d at offset %" PRIu64
-                         " size %" PRIu64 ", but size exceeds file length %"
-                         PRId64, partition, dev_offset, limit, fd_size);
-            exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
-        }
-        fd_size = limit;
-    }
-
     export = nbd_export_new(bs, dev_offset, fd_size, export_name,
                             export_description, bitmap, readonly, shared > 1,
                             nbd_export_closed, writethrough, NULL,
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/223 b/tests/qemu-iotests/223
index ea69cd4..56fbc5f 100755
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/223
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/223
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@
   "bitmap":"b3"}}' "error" # Missing bitmap
 _send_qemu_cmd $QEMU_HANDLE '{"execute":"nbd-server-add",
   "arguments":{"device":"n", "name":"n2", "writable":true,
-  "bitmap":"b2"}}' "return"
+  "description":"some text", "bitmap":"b2"}}' "return"
 $QEMU_NBD_PROG -L -k "$SOCK_DIR/nbd"
 
 echo
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/223.out b/tests/qemu-iotests/223.out
index f175598..80c0cf6 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/223.out
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/223.out
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
 {"error": {"class": "GenericError", "desc": "Enabled bitmap 'b2' incompatible with readonly export"}}
 {"execute":"nbd-server-add", "arguments":{"device":"n", "name":"n2", "bitmap":"b3"}}
 {"error": {"class": "GenericError", "desc": "Bitmap 'b3' is not found"}}
-{"execute":"nbd-server-add", "arguments":{"device":"n", "name":"n2", "writable":true, "bitmap":"b2"}}
+{"execute":"nbd-server-add", "arguments":{"device":"n", "name":"n2", "writable":true, "description":"some text", "bitmap":"b2"}}
 {"return": {}}
 exports available: 2
  export: 'n'
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
    base:allocation
    qemu:dirty-bitmap:b
  export: 'n2'
+  description: some text
   size:  4194304
   flags: 0xced ( flush fua trim zeroes df cache fast-zero )
   min block: 1
@@ -130,7 +131,7 @@
 {"error": {"class": "GenericError", "desc": "Enabled bitmap 'b2' incompatible with readonly export"}}
 {"execute":"nbd-server-add", "arguments":{"device":"n", "name":"n2", "bitmap":"b3"}}
 {"error": {"class": "GenericError", "desc": "Bitmap 'b3' is not found"}}
-{"execute":"nbd-server-add", "arguments":{"device":"n", "name":"n2", "writable":true, "bitmap":"b2"}}
+{"execute":"nbd-server-add", "arguments":{"device":"n", "name":"n2", "writable":true, "description":"some text", "bitmap":"b2"}}
 {"return": {}}
 exports available: 2
  export: 'n'
@@ -143,6 +144,7 @@
    base:allocation
    qemu:dirty-bitmap:b
  export: 'n2'
+  description: some text
   size:  4194304
   flags: 0xced ( flush fua trim zeroes df cache fast-zero )
   min block: 1