global: Convert simple_strtoul() with hex to hextoul()

It is a pain to have to specify the value 16 in each call. Add a new
hextoul() function and update the code to use it.

Add a proper comment to simple_strtoul() while we are here.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/lib/strto.c b/lib/strto.c
index f8b53d846b..57d62163da 100644
--- a/lib/strto.c
+++ b/lib/strto.c
@@ -30,11 +30,10 @@ static const char *_parse_integer_fixup_radix(const char *s, unsigned int *base)
 	return s;
 }
 
-unsigned long simple_strtoul(const char *cp, char **endp,
-				unsigned int base)
+ulong simple_strtoul(const char *cp, char **endp, uint base)
 {
-	unsigned long result = 0;
-	unsigned long value;
+	ulong result = 0;
+	ulong value;
 
 	cp = _parse_integer_fixup_radix(cp, &base);
 
@@ -50,6 +49,11 @@ unsigned long simple_strtoul(const char *cp, char **endp,
 	return result;
 }
 
+ulong hextoul(const char *cp, char **endp)
+{
+	return simple_strtoul(cp, endp, 16);
+}
+
 int strict_strtoul(const char *cp, unsigned int base, unsigned long *res)
 {
 	char *tail;