diff --git a/git.c b/git.c
index 3d8e48cf55..e6fdac1f8e 100644
--- a/git.c
+++ b/git.c
@@ -537,7 +537,7 @@ static struct cmd_struct commands[] = {
 	{ "format-patch", cmd_format_patch, RUN_SETUP },
 	{ "fsck", cmd_fsck, RUN_SETUP },
 	{ "fsck-objects", cmd_fsck, RUN_SETUP },
-	{ "fsmonitor--daemon", cmd_fsmonitor__daemon, RUN_SETUP },
+	{ "fsmonitor--daemon", cmd_fsmonitor__daemon, SUPPORT_SUPER_PREFIX | RUN_SETUP },
 	{ "gc", cmd_gc, RUN_SETUP },
 	{ "get-tar-commit-id", cmd_get_tar_commit_id, NO_PARSEOPT },
 	{ "grep", cmd_grep, RUN_SETUP_GENTLY },
diff --git a/t/t7527-builtin-fsmonitor.sh b/t/t7527-builtin-fsmonitor.sh
index 9edae3ed83..19edc96fd4 100755
--- a/t/t7527-builtin-fsmonitor.sh
+++ b/t/t7527-builtin-fsmonitor.sh
@@ -832,6 +832,56 @@ test_expect_success 'submodule always visited' '
 	my_match_and_clean
 '
 
+# If a submodule has a `sub/.git/` directory (rather than a file
+# pointing to the super's `.git/modules/sub`) and `core.fsmonitor`
+# turned on in the submodule and the daemon is not yet started in
+# the submodule, and someone does a `git submodule absorbgitdirs`
+# in the super, Git will recursively invoke `git submodule--helper`
+# to do the work and this may try to read the index.  This will
+# try to start the daemon in the submodule *and* pass (either
+# directly or via inheritance) the `--super-prefix` arg to the
+# `git fsmonitor--daemon start` command inside the submodule.
+# This causes a warning because fsmonitor--daemon does take that
+# global arg (see the table in git.c)
+#
+# This causes a warning when trying to start the daemon that is
+# somewhat confusing.  It does not seem to hurt anything because
+# the fsmonitor code maps the query failure into a trivial response
+# and does the work anyway.
+#
+# It would be nice to silence the warning, however.
+
+have_t2_error_event () {
+	log=$1
+	msg="fsmonitor--daemon doesnQt support --super-prefix" &&
+
+	tr '\047' Q <$1 | grep -e "$msg"
+}
+
+test_expect_success "stray submodule super-prefix warning" '
+	test_when_finished "rm -rf super; \
+			    rm -rf sub;   \
+			    rm super-sub.trace" &&
+
+	create_super super &&
+	create_sub sub &&
+
+	# Copy rather than submodule add so that we get a .git dir.
+	cp -R ./sub ./super/dir_1/dir_2/sub &&
+
+	git -C super/dir_1/dir_2/sub config core.fsmonitor true &&
+
+	git -C super submodule add ../sub ./dir_1/dir_2/sub &&
+	git -C super commit -m "add sub" &&
+
+	test_path_is_dir super/dir_1/dir_2/sub/.git &&
+
+	GIT_TRACE2_EVENT="$PWD/super-sub.trace" \
+		git -C super submodule absorbgitdirs &&
+
+	! have_t2_error_event super-sub.trace
+'
+
 # On a case-insensitive file system, confirm that the daemon
 # notices when the .git directory is moved/renamed/deleted
 # regardless of how it is spelled in the the FS event.