diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 695ea3296..a61e863eb 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -13,9 +13,6 @@
 [submodule "thirdparty/libnl"]
 	path = thirdparty/libnl
 	url = https://github.com/thom311/libnl.git
-[submodule "thirdparty/pciutils"]
-	path = thirdparty/pciutils
-	url = https://github.com/pciutils/pciutils.git
 [submodule "thirdparty/jansson"]
 	path = thirdparty/jansson
 	url = https://github.com/akheron/jansson.git
diff --git a/thirdparty/pciutils b/thirdparty/pciutils
deleted file mode 160000
index 2f8b8f9fc..000000000
--- a/thirdparty/pciutils
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 2f8b8f9fcfcdb5d5692c6da887fc7f9c0cac847c