This reverts commit ea4a823810c4b7794bf540bd26f2e3b1b8788fbb.
This function was actually still in use in lib/common-functions
and removing it causes the disk-image-get-kernel /bin
to fail entirely.
Change-Id: Icddb3ca369922a6ea915af8b1b62c434cb1bdf28
Closes-bug: 1464031