diff --git a/hack/.staticcheck_failures b/hack/.staticcheck_failures
index c6d17e9fa09..f9fa17823a4 100644
--- a/hack/.staticcheck_failures
+++ b/hack/.staticcheck_failures
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ test/integration/garbagecollector
 test/integration/scheduler_perf
 vendor/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/api/apitesting/roundtrip
 vendor/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1/validation
-vendor/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime
 vendor/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/serializer/json
 vendor/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/httpstream/spdy
 vendor/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/net
diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/scheme.go b/staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/scheme.go
index 697dd4ed77c..14cfef5cad6 100644
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/scheme.go
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/scheme.go
@@ -129,12 +129,6 @@ func (s *Scheme) nameFunc(t reflect.Type) string {
 	return gvks[0].Kind
 }
 
-// fromScope gets the input version, desired output version, and desired Scheme
-// from a conversion.Scope.
-func (s *Scheme) fromScope(scope conversion.Scope) *Scheme {
-	return s
-}
-
 // Converter allows access to the converter for the scheme
 func (s *Scheme) Converter() *conversion.Converter {
 	return s.converter