diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 48c4804d22..53ef0cd292 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 [submodule "misc"]
 	path = misc
-	url = ./misc/
+	url = https://github.com/littlevgl/misc.git
diff --git a/misc b/misc
new file mode 160000
index 0000000000..6fc215eef5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/misc
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 6fc215eef51fe28afc96e9fc266c5a56262fedbc