Comment 21 for bug 1244630

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madbiologist (me-again) wrote : Re: Ubuntu 13.10 fan always on

This might be fixed in the upstream 3.12.5 kernel by this commit (the model name in the patch description is mispelt, but I've checked the patch's source code and it is spelt correctly there, which is what matters):

commit 97b054c2ee8ba8a3542f391641fd78f6e3e44f0a
Author: Alan Cox
Date: Tue Dec 3 13:56:56 2013 -0800

    drivers/char/i8k.c: add Dell XPLS L421X

    commit 9aa5b0181bdf335f0b731d8502e128a862884bcd upstream.

    Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60772

    Signed-off-by: Alan Cox
    Reported-by: Leho Kraav
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman