diff --git a/configs/configload/getter.go b/configs/configload/getter.go
index 146f04b38..d0c4567b6 100644
--- a/configs/configload/getter.go
+++ b/configs/configload/getter.go
@@ -151,3 +151,18 @@ func (g reusingGetter) getWithGoGetter(instPath, addr string) (string, error) {
 	// the requested object!
 	return filepath.Clean(finalDir), nil
 }
+
+// splitAddrSubdir splits the given address (which is assumed to be a
+// registry address or go-getter-style address) into a package portion
+// and a sub-directory portion.
+//
+// The package portion defines what should be downloaded and then the
+// sub-directory portion, if present, specifies a sub-directory within
+// the downloaded object (an archive, VCS repository, etc) that contains
+// the module's configuration files.
+//
+// The subDir portion will be returned as empty if no subdir separator
+// ("//") is present in the address.
+func splitAddrSubdir(addr string) (packageAddr, subDir string) {
+	return getter.SourceDirSubdir(addr)
+}
diff --git a/configs/configload/source_addr.go b/configs/configload/source_addr.go
deleted file mode 100644
index 594cf6406..000000000
--- a/configs/configload/source_addr.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
-package configload
-
-import (
-	"strings"
-
-	"github.com/hashicorp/go-getter"
-
-	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform/registry/regsrc"
-)
-
-var localSourcePrefixes = []string{
-	"./",
-	"../",
-	".\\",
-	"..\\",
-}
-
-func isLocalSourceAddr(addr string) bool {
-	for _, prefix := range localSourcePrefixes {
-		if strings.HasPrefix(addr, prefix) {
-			return true
-		}
-	}
-	return false
-}
-
-func isRegistrySourceAddr(addr string) bool {
-	_, err := regsrc.ParseModuleSource(addr)
-	return err == nil
-}
-
-// splitAddrSubdir splits the given address (which is assumed to be a
-// registry address or go-getter-style address) into a package portion
-// and a sub-directory portion.
-//
-// The package portion defines what should be downloaded and then the
-// sub-directory portion, if present, specifies a sub-directory within
-// the downloaded object (an archive, VCS repository, etc) that contains
-// the module's configuration files.
-//
-// The subDir portion will be returned as empty if no subdir separator
-// ("//") is present in the address.
-func splitAddrSubdir(addr string) (packageAddr, subDir string) {
-	return getter.SourceDirSubdir(addr)
-}