This is version 18 of the Wireless Extensions. The main change
  is that it adds all the necessary APIs for WPA and WPA2 support. This
  work was entirely done by Jouni Malinen, so let's thank him for both
  his hard work and deep expertise on the subject ;-)
        This APIs obviously doesn't do much by itself and works in
  concert with driver support (Jouni already sent you the HostAP
  changes) and userspace (Jouni is updating wpa_supplicant). This is
  also orthogonal with the ongoing work on in-kernel IEEE support (but
  potentially useful).
        The patch is attached, tested with 2.6.11. Normally, I would
  ask you to push that directly in the kernel (99% of the patch has been
  on my web page for ages and it does not affect non-WPA stuff), but
  Jouni convinced me that it should bake a few weeks in wireless-2.6
  first, so that other driver maintainers can get up to speed with it.
  
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>