It has always been OK to pass a NULL buffer pointer to this function,
but this was not documented yet.
*
* \param btrn The node whose input queue is to be queried.
* \param omit Number of bytes to be omitted.
- * \param bufp Result pointer.
+ * \param bufp Result pointer. It is OK to pass \p NULL here.
*
* If a buffer tree node needs more input data but can not consume the data it
* already has (because it might be needed again later) this function can be