As a side-effect of this, encode the endianness explicitly rather than
casting a u16.
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@metanate.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170224125506.21533-7-john@metanate.com