Serialization of UShort uses Int as a parameter instead of explicit Kotlin type

[Eragoneq]

When working on serialization of some packets I tried to improve the interface to use some more generic methods (will post another pull request) I have stumbled upon the code for UShort (de)serialization.

kotlin-ipv8/ipv8/src/main/java/nl/tudelft/ipv8/messaging/Serialization.kt

Lines 36 to 45 in 476dc36

	fun serializeUShort(value: Int): ByteArray {
	val bytes = ByteArray(SERIALIZED_USHORT_SIZE)
	bytes[1] = (value and 0xFF).toByte()
	bytes[0] = ((value shr 8) and 0xFF).toByte()
	return bytes
	}
	fun deserializeUShort(buffer: ByteArray, offset: Int = 0): Int {
	return (((buffer[offset].toInt() and 0xFF) shl 8) or (buffer[offset + 1].toInt() and 0xFF))
	}

For some reason these use usual Int as the input for the method instead of UShort which exists in the Kotlin stdlib. Is there any reasoning why the code does not follow the other examples? Types like UInt, ULong and UChar all use already existing types and that seems to be a weird exception.