diff --git a/wpa_supplicant/defconfig b/wpa_supplicant/defconfig
index 6d51f97bc..7370b21f6 100644
--- a/wpa_supplicant/defconfig
+++ b/wpa_supplicant/defconfig
@@ -500,7 +500,7 @@ CONFIG_BACKEND=file
 # should be noted that this is mainly aimed at simple cases like
 # WPA2-Personal while more complex configurations like WPA2-Enterprise with an
 # external RADIUS server can be supported with hostapd.
-#CONFIG_AP=y
+CONFIG_AP=y
 
 # P2P (Wi-Fi Direct)
 # This can be used to enable P2P support in wpa_supplicant. See README-P2P for