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>
diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-socfpga/misc.c b/arch/arm/mach-socfpga/misc.c
index 64a7c9d..f8d3d48 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-socfpga/misc.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-socfpga/misc.c
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@
 	argv++;
 
 	if (argc == 3)
-		mask = simple_strtoul(argv[1], NULL, 16);
+		mask = hextoul(argv[1], NULL);
 
 	switch (*argv[0]) {
 	case 'e':	/* Enable */