This function is not called anywhere, so just remove it.
Also, as an added benifit, Arnd points out that it doesn't even work
properly:
This code won't work correct during leap seconds or a concurrent
settimeofday() call, and it probably doesn't do what the author intended
even for the normal case, as it passes a timeout in nanoseconds but
reads the time using a jiffies-granularity accessor.