diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 4913e29f159..b05261e0873 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+[submodule "ceph-daemon-adoption-corpus"]
+	path = ceph-daemon-adoption-corpus
+	url = https://github.com/ceph/ceph-daemon-adoption-corpus.git
 [submodule "ceph-object-corpus"]
 	path = ceph-object-corpus
 	url = https://github.com/ceph/ceph-object-corpus.git
diff --git a/ceph-daemon-adoption-corpus b/ceph-daemon-adoption-corpus
new file mode 160000
index 00000000000..50f61c06e96
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ceph-daemon-adoption-corpus
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 50f61c06e96ac46825e2c7257ff4b936299b6a55