Generating patches and using checkpatch.pl

[Daniel Laird <daniel.j.laird@nxp.com>]

I am trying to start feeding back various patches to do with supporting 
the hardware I work on.
The company also decided upon a name change so I thought I would do this 
as well.
So I moved arch/mips/philips to arch/mips/nxp.

I generated a patch
I ran checkpatch.pl as Ralf suggested before.

I now have pages of errors in the patch

- Line over 80 chars
- printk must have KERN_ debug level
- must have a space after this (, or *)
- use tabs not spaces
- Do not use C99 comments.
To name but a few

My question is:
If you do a patch and find all these errors is it expected that I fix 
all these problems, or I just make sure my changes do not make it worse!
Dan