I don't think so. The way the kernel makefiles work, building two
modules with the same name will attempt to link both of them into
linux/modules.
In the immediate situation that Hubert identified, there are two modules
called "pt". One is a driver in drivers/block/paride and the other is
a network module in drivers/net/hamradio. Probably one of these
modules is going to get a new name in the short term - and somebody
should arbitrate that.
In the longer term, I guess we need a registry of module names like
hpa's registry of device names and major numbers. Had we been aware of
the pt network module, I would not have chosen that name for the parallel
port atapi tape driver - and Peter would not have approved the choice.
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