diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index bc6df4f746a..face37ff58c 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
 [submodule "src/llvm"]
 	path = src/llvm
 	url = git://github.com/brson/llvm.git
-[submodule "src/rt/libuv"]
-	path = src/rt/libuv
-	url = git://github.com/joyent/libuv
diff --git a/src/rt/libuv b/src/rt/libuv
deleted file mode 160000
index f1859eb841b..00000000000
--- a/src/rt/libuv
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit f1859eb841be2fe48512bc10e64556383f408b01