diff --git a/components/spiffs/component.mk b/components/spiffs/component.mk
index 624b219d3d..70f96dfd49 100644
--- a/components/spiffs/component.mk
+++ b/components/spiffs/component.mk
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
 COMPONENT_ADD_INCLUDEDIRS := include
 COMPONENT_PRIV_INCLUDEDIRS := spiffs/src
 COMPONENT_SRCDIRS := . spiffs/src
+
+COMPONENT_SUBMODULES := spiffs