Upgrading from 11.1 to 11.2. Yes, it is about openSUSE :)
A few days ago I upgraded openSUSE 11.1 to 11.2 on my sony vaio notebook. I used for that the dvd and I kept my luks encrypted home partition, and as well the encrypted swap partition. It seems that everything is working well, it is a great release with a lot of improvements and nice work.
I still can not use special Fn keys and also I receive a warning message when my encrypted home partition is mounted (after I introduce the passphrase), but not for swap partition. It says something about not finding the module padlock-sha.
I didn’t have too much time to look around to see why, but it seems that as well other people are experiencing the same issue:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=43705
http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.bugs.dist/browse_thread/thread/7e2cda1e525f6cf3/c5ee7253a6f92620?lnk=raot&pli=1
Anyway, thanks again for that great release, I am really happy what I see in 11.2.
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hi,
I was corious sometime ago about this error and I found that it appears because you don’t have some encryption hardware. Nothing to worry about.
Bye
Ok, but then, why is included in the default kernel. I think should not be included in a desktop kernel. 
[...] Upgrade stories are quite a few (mostly from SUSE people like Jörg Reuter), and they are mostly positive (it was smoother a transition than from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10 on the face of it). From Tux Machines: For the first time, openSUSE now officially supports a “dist-upgrade” feature, similar to Debian’s. Which is to say, if you’ve got openSUSE 11.1 installed, you should be able to upgrade to openSUSE 11.2 by updating your list of software repositories to point to providers of software for openSUSE 11.2, doing a distribution upgrade via the Internet, and have a reasonable chance of success. [...]
Have you managed to get screen brightness and suspend-to-ram working? If so, do you mind sharing the secret with a fellow VAIO user? 
If i am not wrong then padlock-sha is some hardware with some CPU? That’s why you get that because you probably have a CPU before i9xx Intel series ?