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/vab.c b/arch/arm/mach-socfpga/vab.c
index 85b3f30..e146f2c 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-socfpga/vab.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-socfpga/vab.c
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@
 	if (argc < 3)
 		return CMD_RET_USAGE;
 
-	addr = simple_strtoul(argv[1], NULL, 16);
-	len = simple_strtoul(argv[2], NULL, 16);
+	addr = hextoul(argv[1], NULL);
+	len = hextoul(argv[2], NULL);
 
 	if (socfpga_vendor_authentication((void *)&addr, (size_t *)&len) != 0)
 		return CMD_RET_FAILURE;