On my embedded system I usually use /dev/ttyS0 as a main console. This is achieved by passing kernel parameter console=/dev/ttyS0
and when init
takes its part, getty
is fired on the same device as specified in inittab
by eg. ttyS0::respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 115200 vt100
.
Is there any possibility to change these settings without restart and switch the console to another terminal like ttyS1
, ttyUSBx
or even some pseudo tty?
It seems that perhaps you don't actually want the console log messages on another device, but are only proposing to redirect them there to stop them from interfering with binary transfers on the primary serial device.
If that is the case, you may be able to solve your problem by dynamically adjusting the console log level.
http://tuxthink.blogspot.com/2012/07/printk-and-console-log-level.html
Suggests that you can do this by writing to a proc node:
echo "6" > /proc/sys/kernel/printk
Would set it to 6 in their example. I suspect setting it to 0 or 1 would work for your purposes - if something goes that wrong, your binary transfer is probably failed anyway.
Log entries should still be retrievable by dmesg regardless of this setting.