sam added this based on a vague notion of backwards compatibility when
he fixed the function to use the local scope, but it kind of makes no
sense - there is very little reason for accessing the global scope from
within a function. google doesn't find any relevant hits except our
source code, so let's just nuke it.
Change-Id: Ie957bb47b531f7e9b5dfcceb4e09f65dd826b422
Reviewed-by: Joerg Bornemann <joerg.bornemann@nokia.com>