diff --git a/solr/CHANGES.txt b/solr/CHANGES.txt
index 61e0a614bae..1e3bfd129c7 100644
--- a/solr/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/solr/CHANGES.txt
@@ -525,6 +525,8 @@ Other Changes
 * SOLR-8246: Fix SolrCLI to clean the config directory in case creating a core failed.
   (Jason Gerlowski via Shai Erera)
 
+* SOLR-8290: remove SchemaField.checkFieldCacheSource's unused QParser argument (Christine Poerschke)
+
 ==================  5.3.1 ==================
 
 Bug Fixes
diff --git a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/BoolField.java b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/BoolField.java
index 594507d653a..5971516ebbc 100644
--- a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/BoolField.java
+++ b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/BoolField.java
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ public class BoolField extends PrimitiveFieldType {
 
   @Override
   public ValueSource getValueSource(SchemaField field, QParser qparser) {
-    field.checkFieldCacheSource(qparser);
+    field.checkFieldCacheSource();
     return new BoolFieldSource(field.name);
   }
 
diff --git a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/CurrencyField.java b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/CurrencyField.java
index 5a81e262e05..9d58731d1e9 100644
--- a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/CurrencyField.java
+++ b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/CurrencyField.java
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ public class CurrencyField extends FieldType implements SchemaAware, ResourceLoa
    */
   public RawCurrencyValueSource getValueSource(SchemaField field, 
                                                QParser parser) {
-    field.checkFieldCacheSource(parser);
+    field.checkFieldCacheSource();
     return new RawCurrencyValueSource(field, defaultCurrency, parser);
   }
 
diff --git a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/EnumField.java b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/EnumField.java
index 54f0d8b3bad..86d6dec5245 100644
--- a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/EnumField.java
+++ b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/EnumField.java
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ public class EnumField extends PrimitiveFieldType {
    */
   @Override
   public ValueSource getValueSource(SchemaField field, QParser qparser) {
-    field.checkFieldCacheSource(qparser);
+    field.checkFieldCacheSource();
     return new EnumFieldSource(field.getName(), enumIntToStringMap, enumStringToIntMap);
   }
 
diff --git a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/FieldType.java b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/FieldType.java
index 7882cad0b74..c3da33b09ee 100644
--- a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/FieldType.java
+++ b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/FieldType.java
@@ -669,7 +669,7 @@ public abstract class FieldType extends FieldProperties {
    *  Lucene FieldCache.)
    */
   public ValueSource getValueSource(SchemaField field, QParser parser) {
-    field.checkFieldCacheSource(parser);
+    field.checkFieldCacheSource();
     return new StrFieldSource(field.name);
   }
 
diff --git a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/GeoHashField.java b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/GeoHashField.java
index db48a80c7a2..ec1772f7755 100644
--- a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/GeoHashField.java
+++ b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/GeoHashField.java
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ public class GeoHashField extends FieldType implements SpatialQueryable {
 
   @Override
   public ValueSource getValueSource(SchemaField field, QParser parser) {
-    field.checkFieldCacheSource(parser);
+    field.checkFieldCacheSource();
     return new StrFieldSource(field.name);
   }
 
diff --git a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/SchemaField.java b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/SchemaField.java
index 45a333e9834..27a642c7758 100644
--- a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/SchemaField.java
+++ b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/SchemaField.java
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ import org.apache.lucene.search.SortField;
 import org.apache.solr.common.SolrException;
 import org.apache.solr.common.util.SimpleOrderedMap;
 import org.apache.solr.response.TextResponseWriter;
-import org.apache.solr.search.QParser;
 
 /**
  * Encapsulates all information about a Field in a Solr Schema
@@ -177,7 +176,7 @@ public final class SchemaField extends FieldProperties {
    * getValueSource implementation 
    * @see FieldType#getValueSource
    */
-  public void checkFieldCacheSource(QParser parser) throws SolrException {
+  public void checkFieldCacheSource() throws SolrException {
     if (! (indexed() || hasDocValues()) ) {
       throw new SolrException(SolrException.ErrorCode.BAD_REQUEST, 
                               "can not use FieldCache on a field which is neither indexed nor has doc values: " 
diff --git a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/StrField.java b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/StrField.java
index 7e6a91333b1..f31d79ad4a8 100644
--- a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/StrField.java
+++ b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/StrField.java
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ public class StrField extends PrimitiveFieldType {
 
   @Override
   public ValueSource getValueSource(SchemaField field, QParser parser) {
-    field.checkFieldCacheSource(parser);
+    field.checkFieldCacheSource();
     return new StrFieldSource(field.getName());
   }
 
diff --git a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/TrieField.java b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/TrieField.java
index c0a5ca1adea..134f0fb9f69 100644
--- a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/TrieField.java
+++ b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/TrieField.java
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ public class TrieField extends PrimitiveFieldType {
 
   @Override
   public ValueSource getValueSource(SchemaField field, QParser qparser) {
-    field.checkFieldCacheSource(qparser);
+    field.checkFieldCacheSource();
     switch (type) {
       case INTEGER:
         return new IntFieldSource( field.getName());