diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 804c0e84..30504bb0 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -126,6 +126,10 @@
 	url = ../qtquickcontrols.git
 	branch = 5.6
 	initrepo = true
+[submodule "qtserialbus"]
+	path = qtserialbus
+	url = ../qtserialbus.git
+	branch = 5.6
 [submodule "qtserialport"]
 	path = qtserialport
 	url = ../qtserialport.git
diff --git a/qt.pro b/qt.pro
index 2ea0fb04..945a7f9e 100644
--- a/qt.pro
+++ b/qt.pro
@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ addModule(qtscript, qtbase, qttools)
 addModule(qtquick1, qtscript, qtsvg qtxmlpatterns)
 addModule(qtdocgallery, qtdeclarative)
 addModule(qtwayland, qtbase, qtdeclarative)
+addModule(qtserialbus, qtbase)
 addModule(qtserialport, qtbase)
 addModule(qtenginio, qtdeclarative)
 addModule(qtwebengine, qtquickcontrols qtwebchannel, qtlocation)
diff --git a/qtserialbus b/qtserialbus
new file mode 160000
index 00000000..11661526
--- /dev/null
+++ b/qtserialbus
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 11661526113009079c22ed18701c17543c62c25c