Fix number base handling of "load" command

As documented, almost all U-Boot commands expect numbers to be entered
in hexadecimal input format. (Exception: for historical reasons, the
"sleep" command takes its argument in decimal input format.)

This rule was broken for the "load" command; for details please see
especially commits 045fa1e "fs: add filesystem switch libary,
implement ls and fsload commands" and 3f83c87 "fs: fix number base
behaviour change in fatload/ext*load".  In the result, the load
command would always require an explicit "0x" prefix for regular
(i. e. base 16 formatted) input.

Change this to use the standard notation of base 16 input format.
While strictly speaking this is a change of the user interface, we
hope that it will not cause trouble.  Stephen Warren comments (see
[1]):

        I suppose you can change the behaviour if you want; anyone
        writing "0x..." for their values presumably won't be
        affected, and if people really do assume all values in U-Boot
        are in hex, presumably nobody currently relies upon using
        non-prefixed values with the generic load command, since it
        doesn't work like that right now.

[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/171172

Acked-by: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/common/cmd_fat.c b/common/cmd_fat.c
index f6d7aff..a12d8fa 100644
--- a/common/cmd_fat.c
+++ b/common/cmd_fat.c
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
 int do_fat_fsload (cmd_tbl_t *cmdtp, int flag, int argc, char * const argv[])
 {
-	return do_load(cmdtp, flag, argc, argv, FS_TYPE_FAT, 16);
+	return do_load(cmdtp, flag, argc, argv, FS_TYPE_FAT);
 }
 
 
@@ -35,8 +35,7 @@ U_BOOT_CMD(
 	"      the load stops on end of file.\n"
 	"      If either 'pos' or 'bytes' are not aligned to\n"
 	"      ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN then a misaligned buffer warning will\n"
-	"      be printed and performance will suffer for the load.\n"
-	"      All numeric parameters are assumed to be hex."
+	"      be printed and performance will suffer for the load."
 );
 
 static int do_fat_ls(cmd_tbl_t *cmdtp, int flag, int argc, char * const argv[])