diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-user-config.yml b/.github/workflows/build-user-config.yml
index 3d89ed7b..cd858391 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build-user-config.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-user-config.yml
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        with:
+            submodules: recursive
 
       - name: Install yaml2json
         run: python3 -m pip install remarshal
@@ -69,6 +71,8 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        with:
+            submodules: recursive
 
       - name: Cache west modules
         uses: actions/cache@v3.0.11