diff --git a/recipes-connectivity/hostapd/files/0001-fix-create-a-versioned-shared-library-libwlan_client.patch b/recipes-connectivity/hostapd/files/0001-fix-create-a-versioned-shared-library-libwlan_client.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7200bc9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes-connectivity/hostapd/files/0001-fix-create-a-versioned-shared-library-libwlan_client.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+From 45bf83dbe2a84f39f09a247445531d890655ea2b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?J=C3=BCrgen=20Henke?= <juergen.henke@netmodule.com>
+Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2021 09:05:57 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] fix: create a versioned shared library libwlan_client.so
+
+Otherwise we will run circles around oe's "THOU SHALL NOT USED
+UNVERSIONED LIBRARIES IN THY LORD'S ROOT-FS" feature.
+
+BugzId: 75694
+---
+ wpa_supplicant/Makefile | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/wpa_supplicant/Makefile b/wpa_supplicant/Makefile
+index 238e31b0c..58c047543 100644
+--- a/wpa_supplicant/Makefile
++++ b/wpa_supplicant/Makefile
+@@ -1965,7 +1965,7 @@ libwpa_client.a: $(LIBCTRL)
+ 
+ libwpa_client.so: $(LIBCTRLSO)
+ 	@$(E) "  CC  $@ ($^)"
+-	$(Q)$(CC) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@ $(CFLAGS) -shared -fPIC $^
++	$(Q)$(CC) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@ $(CFLAGS) -shared -Wl,-soname,libwpa_client.so.2.10.0 -fPIC $^
+ 
+ libwpa_test1: libwpa_test.o libwpa_client.a
+ 	$(Q)$(LDO) $(LDFLAGS) -o libwpa_test1 libwpa_test.o libwpa_client.a $(LIBS_c)