diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yml b/.github/workflows/build.yml
index 51b0b12..a5f3cac 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yml
@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: "Checkout"
         uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        with:
+          submodules: recursive
 
       - name: "Build"
         run: |
diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dee929e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+[submodule "kernel/linux-t2-patches"]
+	path = kernel/linux-t2-patches
+	url = https://github.com/t2linux/linux-t2-patches
diff --git a/kernel/kernel.sh b/kernel/kernel.sh
index 682d87d..c4bb1fa 100755
--- a/kernel/kernel.sh
+++ b/kernel/kernel.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 #!/usr/bin/bash
 FEDORA_KERNEL_VERSION=6.5.5-200.fc38
-PATCHES_COMMIT=3aeff9385079f5f362a5447cdb9f4e2b48962c92
-
 cd /repo/kernel
 koji download-build --quiet --arch=src "kernel-${FEDORA_KERNEL_VERSION}"
 rpmdev-extract -q "kernel-${FEDORA_KERNEL_VERSION}".src.rpm
@@ -16,9 +14,7 @@ sed -i 's/# define buildid .local/%define buildid .t2/g' kernel.spec
 # Disable debug kernels
 sed -i "/%define with_debug /c %define with_debug 0" kernel.spec
 
-git clone --quiet --single-branch --branch main https://github.com/t2linux/linux-t2-patches patches && cd patches
-git checkout --quiet ${PATCHES_COMMIT}
-cd ..
+cat linux-t2-patches/extra_config > kernel-local
+cat linux-t2-patches/*.patch > linux-kernel-test.patch
 
-cat patches/extra_config > kernel-local
-cat patches/*.patch > linux-kernel-test.patch
+cd ..
diff --git a/kernel/linux-t2-patches b/kernel/linux-t2-patches
new file mode 160000
index 0000000..3aeff93
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kernel/linux-t2-patches
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 3aeff9385079f5f362a5447cdb9f4e2b48962c92