diff --git a/examples/storage/sd_card/sdspi/CMakeLists.txt b/examples/storage/sd_card/sdspi/CMakeLists.txt
index d41a683007..e140d48625 100644
--- a/examples/storage/sd_card/sdspi/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/examples/storage/sd_card/sdspi/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 # in this exact order for cmake to work correctly
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.16)
 
-list(APPEND EXTRA_COMPONENT_DIRS "$ENV{IDF_PATH}/examples/storage/sd_card/sdmmc/components/sd_card")
 set(COMPONENTS main)
 
 include($ENV{IDF_PATH}/tools/cmake/project.cmake)
diff --git a/examples/storage/sd_card/sdspi/main/idf_component.yml b/examples/storage/sd_card/sdspi/main/idf_component.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b755a62b14
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/storage/sd_card/sdspi/main/idf_component.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+dependencies:
+  sd_card:
+    path: ${IDF_PATH}/examples/storage/sd_card/sdmmc/components/sd_card
diff --git a/tools/ci/check_examples_extra_component_dirs.sh b/tools/ci/check_examples_extra_component_dirs.sh
index 207efff7f4..ac71e5975a 100755
--- a/tools/ci/check_examples_extra_component_dirs.sh
+++ b/tools/ci/check_examples_extra_component_dirs.sh
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ set -uo pipefail
 # Examples shouldn't use EXTRA_COMPONENT_DIRS, instead the dependencies should be specified in idf_component.yml files
 
 output=$(find ${IDF_PATH}/examples -name "CMakeLists.txt" -not -path "**/managed_components/**" -not -path "**/build/**")
-files=$(egrep "set\(EXTRA_COMPONENT_DIRS" ${output} | cut -d ":" -f 1)
+files=$(egrep "EXTRA_COMPONENT_DIRS" ${output} | cut -d ":" -f 1)
 found_issues=0
 for file in ${files}
 do