Comment # 33 on bug 1175908 from Harald Koenig

(In reply to Takashi Iwai from comment #32)
> Somewhat overlooked during my vacation, sorry.
> 
> About the missing kernel module in dracut: maybe dracut people have a better
> clue.

I guess this was a one-time-only problem in the transition from older kernel
versions which did not yet have essiv.ko, that dracut did not "automatically"
add that module for newer kernels at the first time.

now that I've manually created a first initrd with new kernel and essiv.ko,
after reboot and running new kernel (and module essiv loaded), dracut does the
right thing and again creates working (for me) initrd for updated kernel.

but still it would good to add that magic knowlege for users who run opensuse
15.2 with 5.3.* kernels to avoid that they run into that issue once they
upgrade from 15.2 to newer distros...