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I just thought it was a good idea to scan builtin.modules in the name
uniqueness checking, but a couple of false positives were found.

Stephen reported a false positive for ppc64_defconfig:

  warning: same basename if the following are built as modules:
    arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/nvram.ko
    drivers/char/nvram.ko

The former is never built as a module as you see in
arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/Makefile:

  # CONFIG_NVRAM is an arch. independent tristate symbol, for pmac32 we really
  # need this to be a bool.  Cheat here and pretend CONFIG_NVRAM=m is really
  # CONFIG_NVRAM=y
  obj-$(CONFIG_NVRAM:m=y)         += nvram.o

Another example of false positive is arm64 defconfig:

  warning: same basename if the following are built as modules:
    arch/arm64/lib/crc32.ko
    lib/crc32.ko

It is true CONFIG_CRC32 is a tristate option but it is always 'y' since
it is select'ed by ARM64. Hence, neither of them is built as a module
for the arm64...