Comment # 8 on bug 1094963 from Stefan Hundhammer

(In reply to Stefan Hundhammer from comment #7)
> I have the impression that this LUKS was created a long time ago by a very
> old SUSE release where the kernel used a completely different naming scheme,
> and the transition from that old naming scheme to the current one was
> somehow lost during multiple generations of SUSE releases and the
> corresponding kernels.

Forget that part: In the past, we did not support creating LUKS encryption
containers without LVM - not LUKS on a plain partition as used here.